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Tobacco firm underplayed dangers of smoking
Monday January 09, 2012 08:12:25 AM,
IANS
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Washington: Tobacco
firm Phillip Morris underplayed the dangers from cigarette
additives, including menthol, masking toxicity levels and
increasing chances of heart, cancer and other diseases for
smokers.
Researchers from University of California San Francisco (UCSF)
said that they have found that hundreds of additives, including
menthol, should be eliminated from cigarettes on public health
grounds.
"When we conducted our own analysis by studying additives per
cigarette-following Philip Morris' original protocol-we found that
15 carcinogenic chemicals increased by 20 percent or more," said
senior author Stanton A. Glantz, director of the Centre for
Tobacco Control Research and Education at the UCSF.
In the independent study, Glantz and team reassessed data from
Philip Morris' 'Project MIX,' which detailed chemical analyses of
smoke and animal toxicology studies of 333 cigarette additives.
Philip Morris is the largest tobacco company in the US.
Researchers also found after obtaining evidence that additives
increased toxicity, that tobacco scientists adjusted the protocol
for presenting their results in a way that obscured these
increases.
Additionally, in the independent study, the researchers discovered
the reason behind Philip Morris' failure to identify many toxic
effects in animal studies: its studies were too small.
Researchers used documents made public as a result of litigation
against the tobacco industry. The documents are available to the
public through UCSF's Legacy Tobacco Documents Library.
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