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Expert says industry manipulated light cigarette tests - KPCC News In Brief 

The cigarette industry is bracing itself for a wave of new lawsuits after Monday's Supreme Court ruling on so-called "light" cigarettes. The Court ruled that cigarette makers could be sued for allegedly deceptive advertising.

Dr. Stanton Glantz teaches medicine at UC San Francisco's Center for Tobacco Control. He told KPCC that the industry manipulated tests with smoking machines by punching tiny holes in the "light" cigarettes.

Dr. Stanton Glantz: "So that when the machines sucked air through the cigarette it would get diluted with room air, and so the amount of tar and nicotine that was delivered to the machines was reduced, knowing full well that when actual human smokers put the cigarettes in their mouths, they covered up these microscopic holes with their lips, and so got much higher actual doses of tar and nicotine."

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