Monday, 7 November 2005

Claim of 'safer cigarette' draws anger from lobby group, The Australian, 7 November, 2005.

Claim of `safer cigarette' draws anger from lobby group: [1 All-round Country Edition]

Stapleton, JohnThe Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 07 Nov 2005: 3.
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"It is a regulative black hole," she said. "Many Australians will be conned into smoking these products unless we have a national regulatory framework in place that will test these marketing claims of less dangerous cigarettes. The current regulatory vacuum is exactly what the tobacco industry wants. Smoking kills 18,000 Australians every year."
Company spokesman David Betteridge claimed the new cigarettes "look and taste like normal cigarettes". He refused to divulge thename under which the cigarettes would be marketed but claimed the company had improved the way it dried tobacco leaves to reduce cancer-causing toxins when burnt.

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