Drawing on interviews with tobacco control officials, industry experts, cigarette vendors, and smokers, an OCCRP investigation found that JTI has been systematically evading the European menthol ban by selling cigarettes containing menthol in 19 countries across the continent
Research shows youre five times more likely to quit for good if you stop smoking for 28 days
As a Philip Morris executive said in an internal memo in 1966, the illusion of filtration is as important as the fact of filtration.[12] In 1976, Ernest Pepples, vice-president and General Counsel for Brown & Williamson, wrote that despite the industry claims made about filter cigarettes, in most cases, the smoker of a filter cigarette was getting as much or more nicotine and tar as he would have gotten from a regular cigarette.[13] At the same time, company lawyers were concerned about the reputation of their non-filter brands, which, by implication, were more dangerous
noted in their study, higher levels of openness, among few other personality traits, predicted longitudinal substance use (87)