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"There is a substantial, longstanding body of evidence demonstrating that light' or low-tar' cigarettes do not reduce smokers' exposure to hazardous compounds or their risk of disease," said Dr. Cathy Backinger, acting chief of the Tobacco Control Branch of the National Cancer Institute. Witnesses told the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee that the tar and nicotine testing method developed for cigarettes, first developed in 1967, did not accurately measure how many carcinogens a cigarette would deliver to the smoker or accurately assess how a smoker would behave to satisfy a nicotine addiction. The Federal Trade Commission first developed an automatic cigarette testing machine 40 years ago. But cigarette makers have modified designs to prevent the machine, long regarded as obsolete, from accurately measuring the amount of tar and nicotine provided by a cigarette, witnesses told U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg. Companies actually poke tiny holes to ventilate their cigarettes or make other changes to render the FTC test method pointless. And the machine's inhalations do not mimic those of a smoker, witnesses said. People tend to take deeper breaths, smoke more low-tar cigarettes than regular ones and hold low-tar smoke in their lungs for added time to satisfy their nicotine cravings. The net effect: Smokers who buy light or low-tar cigarettes wind up doing serious damage to their lungs even while believing they have purchased a product that poses a lesser health risk. "A light cigarette may not only be as a bad as a regular cigarette, but often, it's worse for your health. I want to repeat that. A light cigarette can often be more deadly than a regular cigarette," said Lautenberg, a New Jersey Democrat and tobacco industry critic. Lautenberg invited witnesses from the Altria Group, the parent company of Philip Morris, and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, but both firms declined to provide witnesses. William Kovacic, a member of the Federal Trade Commission, ducked any responsibility for the inaccurate testing of cigarettes. He urged Senate lawmakers to strip the FTC of any authority to test cigarette nicotine and tar levels. The commission, Kovacic testified, first recommended in July 1999 that Congress tap one of the nation's science-based public health agencies to conduct cigarette testing. He renewed that recommendation on Tuesday. © Copyright 2006 by CigarettesOn.Com |
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