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Toward a Less Hazardous Cigarette, 1979-10-14 - 1979-10-16

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The conference heard presentations of evidence, such as declining lung cancer incidence among younger age groups in the United Kingdom, and United States studies reporting lower rates of lung cancer among filter-cigarette smokers and a reduced frequency of bronchial lesions in hospital patients of recent years (with known smoking frequencies) compared with similar groups of patients 15 years earlier. All of this evidence indicates that the risk of smoking-related lung cancer is being reduced by multiple changes in cigarettes whose combined effect has been to reduce the delivery of tar of the average cigarette by more than half in the last 20 years. Among other topics discussed was the recent sharp increase in the market share of cigarettes with less than 15 mg of tar (defined in the United States as low-tar cigarettes) from 24% in the first quarter of 1977 to more than 40% in the second quarter of 1979. Also discussed were studies of such possible continuing smoking risks as carbon monoxide, polonium 210, nitrosamines, and nicotine; and studies indicating that the tendency of smokers to compensate for reduced tar and nicotine by smoking more cigarettes is very moderate. Leading in the organization of the meeting was Gio B. Gori of the National Cancer Institute.

Dates

  • Creation: 1979-10-14 - 1979-10-16

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Access Restrictions

Portions of this collection have been digitized and are available in full at CSHL Archives thanks to support from CLIR Recordings at Risk Grant awarded in 2021. Some restrictions apply, see Archivist for details. Access is given by appointment only.

Conditions Governing Use

Tapes have been digitized and are available for research in person at CSHL Archives.

Extent

15 Cassettes : Tape 1: [01:04:39]; Tape 2: [01:02:54]; Tape 3: [1:04:23]; Tape 4: [1:05:19]; Tape 5: [0:42:09]; Tape 6: [1:04:17]; Tape 7: [1:04:01]; Tape 8: [1:04:11]; Tape 9: [0:31:42]; Tape 10: [1:04:38]; Tape 11: [1:05:02]; Tape 12: [1:04:07]; Tape 13: [1:04:30]; Tape 14: [1:05:16]; Tape 15: [0:42:57]

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Session 1- Introduction and Epidemiological Trends

Some Concept of the Less Harmful Cigarette / Ernst L. Wynder
The Long Term Benefits of Reducing Tar and Nicotine in Cigarettes / E. Cuyler Hammond
Changes in Number of Cigarettes Smoked Compared to Changes in Tar and Nicotine Content Over a 13-Year Period / Lawrence Garfinkel
Threshold of Tar Exposure: Analysis of Smoking History of Male Lung Cancer Cases and Controls / Michael Kunze and Christian Vutuc
Nondetectable Risk Levels in Cigarette Smoking / Cornelius J. Lynch and Gio B. Gori

Session 2: Toxicological Dimensions

Inhalation Studies of Toxicity of Tobacco Smoke / Sam P. Batista
The Limiting Factors in Understanding the Natural History of Tobacco Smoke Effects in the Lungs / Mario C. Battigelli
Pulmonary Toxicity of Nitrogen Oxides / Louis Diamond
Carbon Monoxide as a Contributor to the Health Hazards of Cigarette Smoking / Poul Astrup
Smoking and Cardiovascular Diseases / Colin J. Schwartz, Henry C. McGill, Jr., and Walter R. Rogers
Polonium-210: A Questionable Risk Factor in Smoking-Related Carcinogenesis / Naomi H. Harley, Beverly S. Cohen, and T.C. Tso
Carcinogens, Cocarcinogens, and Tumor Inhibitors in Cigarette Smoke Condensate / Benjamin L. Van Duuren
The Role of Volatile and Nonvolatile N-Nitrosamines in Tobacco Carcinogenesis / Dietrich Hoffmann, Chi-hong B. Chen, and Stephen S. Hecht
Cocarcinogenic Properties of Nicotine / Fred G. Bock
Changes in Bronchial Epithelium: Then and Now / Oscar Auerbach, E. Cuyler Hammond, and Lawrence Garfinkel

Session 3: Risk Reduction Achievements and Future Directions / Michael A.H. Russell, Chairperson

Session 4: Cigarette Engineering

Modification Through Agricultural Techniques for Developing a Safer Tobacco / T.C. Tso
Chemical Composition of Cigarette Smoke / Michael R. Guerin
Reconstituted Tobacco Sheet / William A. Selke
Improving Cigarettes with Cotobacco Material / Theo Eicher, Friedemann Müller, and Dieter Steinhoff
Physical Methods for the Modification of Tobacco Smoke / Charles H. Keith
Sensory Attributes of Cigarette Smoking / William S. Cain
The Less Harmful Cigarettes and Tobacco Smoke Flavors / Edmond J. LaVoie, Stephen S. Hecht, Dietrich Hoffmann, and Ernst L. Wynder
Less Hazardous Cigarettes: Theory and Practice / Gio B. Gori

Session 5: Behavioral and Economic Issues

Diminished Smoking, Withdrawal Symptoms, and Cessation: A Cautionary Note / Saul M. Shiffman
The Case for Medium-Nicotine, Low-Tar, Low-Carbon Monoide Cigarettes / Michael A.H. Russell
Studies of Switching to Low Tar and Nicotine Cigarettes / Jerome H. Jaffe, Maureen Kanzler, and Larry Friedman
Trends in Cigarette Consumption / John C. Maxwell, Jr.
Public Policy Issues in the Promotion of Less Hazardous Cigarettes / Jeffrey E. Harris
Demographic and Economic Effects of the Prevention of Early Mortality Associated with Tobacco-Related Diseases / Brian J. Richter and Gio B. Gori
Summary / Gio B. Gori
Afterword / Victor K. McElheny

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