Search for ‘safe’ cigarette
NZPA correspondent Washington The United States Department of Agriculture is spending SUSS.3 million a year in a bid to develop a “safe” cigarette. Critics, including the Department of Health and Human Services, believe the money is being wasted: that there is no such thing as a safe cigarette. Asked about reports that the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company was doing similar research on a “safe” cigarette, a company spokesman said: “I don’t know anything about it. We don’t know of anything that makes a cigarette unsafe, so how could we be working toward a safer cigarette?” The Agriculture Department research has been going on for at least 10 years in laboratories, greenhouses and universities. Most of the work consists of cross-breeding and genesplicing. No early results are expected.
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