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' SOME QUESTIONS • T' -- What is a low tar-low nicotine-cigarette? a.~o^a,7 a-5. 8- 3S7 - American Cancer Soc} ety 176 h-14~ < <.Z ~ - NCI C6C1yk-.;~Gu~ „,J., .._.._..L„., '1 - - , FTC ~ -- How sure can we be that a cigarette has exactly the tar-nicotine levels the company says? -- What is the "critical value" tar-nicotine level per day? Total and per cigarette at rate of 20 per day? -- Are any brands on the market that rate low tar-nicotine total per pack per day'according to the Cancer Society? According to NCI? -- It all depends upon how much you smoke, but at one pack per day, what's t-he per cigarette "critical value" according to NCI? ---Why don't companies just make nothing but low tar-nicotine cigarettes? Smokers would have to -smoke them. , -- What would be the economic impact if all smokers went to below "critical value" cigarettes and no more than one-pack per day? ---If 50 percent did and the-rest continued with today's pattern?- -- What's the-tar-nicotine rating per pack or cigarette of the 10 most popular brands of American cigarettes? -- Among all American ciclizrette brands? -- Is the industry satisfied with the FTC tar-nicotine ratings? ' Would it prefer another existing or new agency for rating? Government or private/independent?

- Why does the industry keep fighting, or at least downgrading and questioning, the pretty clear fact that cigarettes are disease-related? - Isn't the industry, by producing and advertising low tar-nicotine cigarettes admitting its products are n- healt?i 'threat? r P