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Do You Put Licorice Candy in Any of Your Cigarette Tobacco.
Abstract
This letter was sent to the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company from vegetarian Camel smoker who wrote to object to the use of licorice, which contains the animal by-product gelatin, as an ingredient in cigarettes. Since ingredients are not listed on the pack, the writer cannot be sure if the ingredient exists in the cigarettes. The writer, who is clearly concerned about unecessary animal deaths, is completely unconcerned about the hundreds of thousands of deaths caused to humans by cigarettes. The writer also states an awareness that insects and animal feces are in consumer products, but says, "this is not what I am concerned about, especially".
This letter should help stave off stereotypes about vegetarians (who are usually thought of as health-conscious people) and demonstrates how smokers think (or do not think) about their product and its ramifications.
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Dec. 28, 1995
Reynolds R.J. Tobacco Co.;
Do you put licorice candy in any of your cigarette tobacco. Do you put licorice candy in Camel cigarettes to keep tobacco moist? If you do, as I have heard cigarette manufacturers do, is there gelatin in the licorice candy used?
I am a vegetarian. I do not want to smoke any cigarettes containing gelatin or any part of an animal slaughtered for the purpose of deliberate includion in (addition to) any product I consume. I may or may not ever again smoke cigarettes, but if I do, I don't want gelatin or any animal product in them. (I already know insects get into (almost) all food products, and animal feces and such, this is not what I am concerned about, especially.)
Storm Root 8344 N. 4th St. Phoenix, Arizona 85020
- Company
- R.J. Reynolds
- Author
- Root, Storm
- Recipient
- R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
- Moore, Pat - Consumer Relations
- Region
- United States
- Type
- HANDWRITTEN
- CONSUMER LETTER
- Subject
- health belief
- additives
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