{"id":2345,"date":"2014-06-29T19:35:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T19:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2014-06-29T19:36:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T19:36:44","slug":"how-big-tobacco-has-made-cigarettes-more-deadly-in-the-past-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2345","title":{"rendered":"How Big Tobacco has made cigarettes more deadly in the past 50 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tobacco-2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2350\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?attachment_id=2350\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tobacco-2.jpg?fit=622%2C486&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"622,486\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Tara Culp-Ressler&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1403525010&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"tobacco-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tobacco-2.jpg?fit=474%2C370&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2350\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tobacco-2.jpg?resize=300%2C234&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"tobacco-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tobacco-2.jpg?resize=300%2C234&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tobacco-2.jpg?w=622&amp;ssl=1 622w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> The Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids put out an <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/health\/2014\/06\/23\/3451935\/big-tobacco-hooked-cigarettes\/\">interesting report last week<\/a> about the various additives tobacco companies are putting into cigarettes today to make them more addictive and hence more deadly. According to this graphic from CTFK, there&#8217;s a number of things the tobacco industry has done over the past 50 years to make cigarettes more addictive. I&#8217;ve read all about how the tobacco industry has been known for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/01\/23\/opinion\/23tue3.html?_r=0\">manipulating the level of nicotine in cigarettes.\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0(Something the tobacco industry continues to deny) Anyway, here is an interesting infographic. The various ways the industry increases the intake of nicotine:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Increased Nicotine:\u00a0<\/strong>Tobacco companies precisely control the delivery and amount of nicotine to create and sustain addiction.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bronchodilators:<\/strong>\u00a0These added chemicals expand the lungs&#8217; airways, making it easier for tobacco smoke to pass into the lungs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Levulinic Acid:<\/strong>\u00a0Added organic acid salts, like levulinic acid, reduce the harshness of nicotine and make the smoke smoother and less irritating.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Menthol:<\/strong>\u00a0Menthol cools and numbs the throat to reduce irritation and make the smoke feel smoother.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sugars and Acetaldehyde:<\/strong>\u00a0Added sugars make tobacco smoke easier to inhale and, when burned in cigarettes, form acetaldehyde, a cancer-causing chemical that enhances nicotine\u2019s addictive effects.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ammonia:\u00a0<\/strong>Added ammonia compounds produce higher levels of &#8220;freebase&#8221; nicotine and increase the speed with which nicotine hits the brain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cMost people would think that 50 years after we learned that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, cigarettes would be safer. What\u2019s shocking about the report we issued today is that we\u2019ve found that a smoker today has more than twice the risk of lung cancer than a smoker fifty years ago, as a direct result of design changes made by the industry,\u201d Matt Myers, the president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, said in an interview with ThinkProgress.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(One note about the Matt Myers quote. I would disagree with one aspect of his comment. A two- to three-pack-a-day smoker was not uncommon 50 years ago, and that&#8217;s almost unheard of today with the breadth of smoking bans, so smokers are not smoking nearly as much as they did 50 years ago. But, his point is taken.) Pretty chilling stuff. The industry has done everything in its power to try and make cigarettes more physically addictive to keep their customers until death do them part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids put out an interesting report last week about the various additives tobacco companies are putting into cigarettes today to make them more addictive and hence more deadly. According to this graphic from CTFK, there&#8217;s a number of things the tobacco industry has done over the past 50 years to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2345\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Big Tobacco has made cigarettes more deadly in the past 50 years<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,260,69,1],"tags":[589,645,191],"class_list":["post-2345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cigarettes","category-nicotine","category-tobacco-2","category-uncategorized","tag-cigarettes","tag-nicotine","tag-tobacco"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tobacco-2.jpg?fit=622%2C486&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-BP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":406,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=406","url_meta":{"origin":2345,"position":0},"title":"Department of Justice urges Big Tobacco to finally tell the truth","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"February 24, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting story here. 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This week, several tobacco companies -- RJ Reynolds, Altria (Philip Morris) -- agreed with the Justice Department to print \"corrective statements\" in major newspapers around the U.S. admitting that they lied for many years about the health effects of smoking. These full-page ads will\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anti-tobacco campaign&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anti-tobacco campaign","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?cat=7"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Guilty-Dogs-Of-2013-Hilarious-Dog-Video-Compilation.jpg?fit=630%2C416&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Guilty-Dogs-Of-2013-Hilarious-Dog-Video-Compilation.jpg?fit=630%2C416&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Guilty-Dogs-Of-2013-Hilarious-Dog-Video-Compilation.jpg?fit=630%2C416&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3873,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=3873","url_meta":{"origin":2345,"position":3},"title":"FDA finally issues ruling on e-cigarettes","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"May 6, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"At\u00a0long last, after TWO years of deliberations, the Food and Drug Administration earlier this week FINALLY issued a ruling on e-cigarette (and tobacco) regulation. 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