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APPENDIX 18: Letter from Professor Jack E Hennifield to the Clerk of the Committee (TB 30) 

My first conclusion is that there is now overwhelming evidence that the major tobacco companies (ie, British American Tobacco Co and Philip Morris Inc) have been making false claims about the tar and nicotine deliveries to consumers and that these claims were willful attempts to deceive people in effort, in their own words, to "keep smokers in the franchise" and "delay the quitting process". Furthermore the efforts included cigarette design techniques intended to cheat the ISO and FTC cigarette testing methods, and that the companies had no evidence that the cigarettes with claims to be lower in tar and nicotine offered the health benefits implied in their advertising or trademarked brand names. Indeed the tobacco companies' own data indicated that so-called "light" cigarettes may have served to increase the health risk to consumers.

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