Lorillard and Hollingsworth & Vose face numerous lawsuits by victims of mesothelioma, an extremely rare and deadly asbestos-related cancer that typically shows up decades after initial exposure
Nicotine-containing products should not be used by people who have or are at risk of heart disease, are diabetic, are epileptic or experience seizures
A third of the lives that would be saved would be among the Black community
Unfortunately, this isnt a straightforward question, as theres a significant difference between the amount of nicotine in a cigarette and how much of that nicotine youll actually absorb from smoking the cigarette
Lorillard launched Kent at a press conference at New Yorks Waldorf-Astoria, touting the Micronite filter as offering the greatest health protection in cigarette history. Playing on the publics gee-whiz faith in science and technology, Kent ads told a glamorous, though vague, back story of how the quest for the new filter ended in an atomic energy plant, where the makers of KENT found a material being used to filter air of microscopic impurities. What is Micronite? another ad asked
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