This study was funded by the National Institutes of Health (RO1 DA035430) and was partially supported through a Pilot Project from the University of Chicago Cancer Center
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of news story on the CBS-TV Evening News with Walter Cronkite and other stations, as well as newspaper articles about this story) sent to client Hill and Knowlton, Inc., the public relations firm for The Tobacco Institute November 17, 1967 Identified in the Tobacco industry Documents Library PROMISE FROM CIGARETTE PRODUCERS WALTER CRONKITE: Senator Robert Kennedy, who wants a federal law governing cigarette advertising standards, got a promise from the cigarette producers today
I feel confident that in this case we could identify this group of substances, and it would be worth almost any effort, by preliminary treatment, additives, or filtration, to get rid of it." Industry documents show that tobacco companies focused their safe-cigarette research on several areas, including the development of synthetic tobacco, boosting nicotine levels in low-tar cigarettes (so smokers wouldn't have to compensate for a loss of nicotine), and selective filtration of the most toxic substances in cigarette smoke, such as carbon monoxide
