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Genetic engineering involves adding or subtracting characteristics from an organism by either suppressing the action of a specific gene or by adding a gene from another plant, or even an animal. A few years ago, in an extreme example, scientists spliced a gene from a firefly into a tobacco plant, and the plant glowed in the dark. The kinds of changes allowed under the new policy are much less exotic: vegetables will be exempted from pre-testing only if their nutritional value hasn't been lowered, if they incorporate only new substances -- proteins or sugars, for example -- that are already...
Priced at under $4 each, the patch delivers a steady fix of nicotine, the addictive part of tobacco, without the 4,000-plus other nasty components that make up tar. Long-term studies are lacking, but initial data suggest that the patches can double the success rate for quitters in the short run when coupled with behavioral therapy...
When the Harvard Cooperative Society began in 1882, it occupied only a five-foot tall bookshelf in a tobacco store...
SMOKERS IN THE U.S., HIT WITH EVERYTHING FROM emphysema to excise taxes, may finally be getting the message. Federal health officials reported last week that the number of Americans who still smoke tobacco has reached a record low and is falling faster than at any other time since the government began tracking it 37 years ago. In 1955, 42% of Americans smoked cigarettes. Today nonsmokers outnumber smokers nearly...
Premium cigars, unlike machine-made cigars, are constructed of whole tobacco leaf compressed by hand into the "long" filler, which is held together by whole-leaf binders and wrappers. Serious smokers debate tobacco blends and cigar construction almost as passionately as wine lovers worry about tannin content. Consolidated Cigar executive vice president Richard L. Dimeola offers some tips to the novice: if it draws too easily, it was "underfilled," and the air pockets will cause a fast burn and a hot smoke. If possible, check the cigarmaker's "leaf inventory." If the company isn't stocking enough tobacco to skip...