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1:rrG1:r NICOTINE, LOW TAIL PRODUCTS The ttvrt -item-of. note. k discualni..this.'~newJ.'., topin.k htlhe concept of a ELIh Nicotine/Low Tar cigarette is certainly not new. From the earliest days of Foster'D. Snell measurements (and quite naturally and predictably from the adverse connotations with the word "Tar") the. industry his experimented with these /ypes of c~Lrettes. The idea is currently in vogue however and recent publications and 8mtemenl~ from people outside of the industr7 have added fresh impetus to the developments. It is tznportaJat now, and ts becoznkng incmeustnKly important, that ..... 5tny-discusstea of. Tar/Nicotine ntios should be ca~-rled out with~sLolute eertaJ~ that llke is being compared with lt~e;, for example Lf a TPM/ Nicotine r~tto is quoted then this adaould not be confused with a P~/ l~cottne r-atio or a T81-/Nicotine rlttio. (No spoloe:r is made for driwing attention to this simple matter in a presentation of th/s sort since errors are 8"dLD. being made). With this caveat, ate, roUen may be drawn to ratios which empLr£caJ3y indicate "noz~s" in the ]Jttter part of 1977. For =pie a completely random selection of I0 routine analyses of KS ¢IEazettes from PDL Southmpton'8 six mon4~ly Storm&r7 indLcates the following BAT Co LTD - MINNESOTA TOBACCO LITIGATION p,o O%

-2- BRAND TJ__M o L.S. KS. C. Pica 25. I • Camel K~ Holland 19.9 P. 5tuyvesant 2:5 Mauritlus 54. 6 Ruhtos KS NLcara~ 22.2 Naalon~-l~ ~az~a .... 19.1 Winston KS Abu Dhabl 21. I B &w~ 23.1 R~~s KS Jersey •30.3 Kent KS Oman 21. I Bels/r KS U.I~ 15.4 NI~ APPROX RATIO oF TPM/ uC 1.46 17 I. 24 16 2.24 15 1.16 19 1.15 "-" 17 1.25 17 1.55 16 1.40 22 1.04 20 0.88 18 It may be realistic to assume for this that the :norz~ for KS cq~a-ettes 1Les somewhere between 15 and 22 and that most cigarettes will be in that' area. This is pz-obably true a3.thoul~h exceptions can of course be found (peps -~o. prove the z-ule?) "m-td ¢ef'ta.tn.znarkets, partlcularly those where lares proportions of 10w nicotine tobacco are used, are well known to p~bUuce khnornzslly hlEh ratios of TPM/NLcotine (eg l~dl/ppLnes where filxtrles like 22 mE TPg/I and 0.6 mE l~cotine. produce |ratios of 37. These obvLously/ndicate "Low Nicotine/Xieh Tar Products". ) Of more interest ~tiy are the situations where ratios of Tl=~l/Nlcot/ne as low as 6 axe being talked about. Referenae to 1he PDL s/x-monthly mmamary of stint analyses tow the U.E. sh~ws sane brazxls (in this case dellbez-ately selected) as to.I/ows : - BRAND o B&H SUk Cut KS ]~mbas ay Extra M/ld J. Player U1tr~MLld TPM NIcoTINE RATIO 1o.8 o.. 3.1 s.s o.-e7 1.9 0.20 10 BAT Co LTD - MINNESOTA TOBACCO LITIGATION r,o

-3- It Is clear from this that some manufacturers art already producing cigarettes - and particularly k delivery cJ4rarettes - which have Tl=M/Nlaottne z~flos mabstan/~lly lower than the "noz-m" of 15-22.. These TPM/I~lc z~ti~8 of aq=p~tely 10 are relatively easy to produce by suitable combinations of ctwrently av~[Ikble ~lters/cl~rette papers and more or less *conventional' tobacco blends. To reduce the ratios fur~he~ however - and particutwrlTto lower-- it to the region of 6 (a cigarette, say with T~ deliver7 of 10 mg and a nicotine delivery of I. 7mS) is a demanding ekercise. It has so far proved impossible to produce c~g~rettes of this type usizqf conventional tobacco blends. The "most ]Jlcely solution to /he problem appeaa's at pi'esent as if it w~LU alwmys en/aail the use of high nicolas tobaccos (greater say than 3% d. w. b. ) combined with the correct cornbirmtion of design features to enmare adequLt~ filtration or ventilation or bo~h. Ci~Lrettes with TPM/Ntc aries in the order of 6 have alx~ady been produced expe~en~. Itoutine production of such cigarettes howeve~ is e~LU a problema, the maJ~ fairs of which are probably. a) The ct~ttse art '4znbalanced* by the tlste 8tandsrds'ot ~oday. The hiKh nicotine and low tar combination appears to l~ve rise to rnanker COZ~pl~ll~J8 Of NhsLrshl~eSsel e~e b) : .... 3Kis~b nic'b53he tobaccos (- in the International context) are 8wnez~Uy expensive and in abort mapq~ly. c) Meu~ufa~; prohl-.ms associated with u11=~ ..... degFee of venti]Jation 8tLU exist. BAT Co LTD - MINNESOTA TOBACCO LITIGATION .--4 W 0% N O~

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