SAFER TOBACCO FILTER
June 1st, 2005
BY MONICA DOBIEA NEW "safer" cigarette sporting a filter cutting out harmful chemicals will be launched in the United States later this month, under the brand Fact. Although its filter - created by Hong Kong biotech company Filigent - looks like standard filters, it is treated with a patented chemicals process blocking cancer-causing toxins. The cigarette is manufactured by independent tobacco company in North Carolina, the Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation; Arnold Hamm, Assistant General Manager said unlike other cigarettes designed to be ...
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