Gunja M, Wayne G Ferris, Landman A, Connolly G, McGuire A
Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Tob Control. 2002 Dec;11(4):346-53. doi: 10.1136/tc.11.4.346.
To examine the extensive research undertaken by the tobacco industry over the past 25 years toward development of a fire safe cigarette.
Research was conducted through a web based search of internal tobacco industry documents made publicly available through the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement.
The documents reveal that the tobacco industry produced a fire safe cigarette years ago, but failed to put it on the market. These findings contradict public industry claims that denied the technical feasibility and commercial acceptability of fire safe cigarettes. Internal documents also reveal a decades long, coordinated political strategy used to block proposed legislation and obfuscate the fire safe issue.
Federal legislation mandating fire safe cigarettes is needed.
研究烟草行业在过去25年中为开发防火安全香烟所进行的广泛研究。
通过网络搜索依据1998年《主协议和解协议》公开的烟草行业内部文件进行研究。
文件显示，烟草行业多年前就生产出了防火安全香烟，但却未能将其投放市场。这些发现与烟草行业公开宣称的否认防火安全香烟的技术可行性和商业可接受性相矛盾。内部文件还揭示了一项长达数十年的协调一致的政治策略，该策略用于阻止拟议的立法并混淆防火安全问题。
需要制定强制要求生产防火安全香烟的联邦立法。
