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...little trace of nicotine in the filter on the punched half. Then I punched two holes-more effective! I then punched three, four and five holes. With a pair of scissors I snipped a hole all the way around the cigarette. Would you believe, not a trace of nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide or smoke? What a Golconda...
...Cold-Blooded. Assuming that the variation had been similar in prehistoric animals, Ho turned to late Pleistocene epoch (10,000 to 200,000 years ago) fossil remains containing well-preserved collagen. Chemically analyzing the collagen in fossil specimens recovered from Los Angeles' famed La Brea tar pits, he applied his formula and calculated the temperatures of such extinct species as the browsing ground sloth, the dire wolf, the short-faced bear and the saber-toothed...
...winds aloft ranged up to 60 m.p.h., the air craft was a World War II B-25 bomber with rudimentary navigation equipment, and the pilot was Robert Karns, 29, who had never bothered to get a "type rating" for the plane. The jumpers' tar get: Ortner Field itself, only ten miles from Lake Erie...
Tests v. Caution. Before announcing the filter, Columbia had an independent commercial laboratory test its efficiency on eleven cigarette brands. The results: an average reduction of 68% in tar to 8 mg., and a cut of 67% in nicotine to .38 mg. The effect on Salems: an 87% cut in tar content from 21.5 mg. to 2.8 mg., and a cut in nicotine from 1.07 mg. to 0.11 mg. For Marvels (recently reported by leading cancer researchers to be the nation's safest cigarette): a cut in tars from 8.6 mg. to 3.7 mg., and in nicotine, from...
Giving Up. All the same, Columbia's filter financing seemed to come at a somewhat inauspicious moment. Medical experts are convinced, as Surgeon General William Stewart of the U.S. Public Health Service puts it, that "the lower the tar and nicotine content, the lower the general health danger." But what disturbed critics of Columbia's sweeping announcement (Columbia's press release called the filter "a development of far-reaching importance, which promises to benefit mankind") is the fact that tar and nicotine are not the only dangerous elements in cigarettes. Just the day before Strickman...