cigarette in indonesian packet of kretek clove cigarettes Stock Photo Chain-smoking Indonesian boy, 6, praised

Inside the cigarette case, a spring-loaded holder secures cigarettes, and an engine-turned etched pattern adds refinement

market is not a harm reduction strategy, as the industry claims, but rather an attempt to grow a market for nicotine among a generation of young people who were rejecting traditional nicotine delivery products like cigarettes

It was discovered that middlemen were selling counterfeit Regal cigarettes manufactured in unregulated Chinese plants

It was reported in the Plain Truth magazine that Cast-off smoke contains twice as much tar and nicotine, three times as much of a certain kind of benozopyrene (a suspected cancer agent), five times as much carbon monoxide (which robs the blood of life-giving oxygen), and 46 times as much ammonia as the smoke the smoker inhales! ( Plain Truth , New Truth About Smoking, January 1981)