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• Expert Panel Report on R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company's Eclipse Cigarettes Published in Peer-Reviewed Scientific Journal 

The report of an expert scientific panel that has evaluated the data on Eclipse cigarettes has been published in Inhalation Toxicology (Vol. 12, Supplement 5, October 2000), a leading, peer-reviewed scientific journal.

Eclipse is a cigarette that produces smoke by primarily heating, rather than burning, tobacco. It was introduced by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (RJRT) in test market in Dallas/Fort Worth in April.

The chairman of the scientific panel is Dr. Bernard M. Wagner, an emeritus research professor of pathology at New York University Medical Center who has served as a member of the Committee on Toxicology of the National Academy of Sciences.

In 1999, at the request of RJRT, Dr. Wagner assembled the panel to evaluate, in an objective and critical manner, the extensive body of data generated by RJRT scientists, independent laboratories, and university scientists regarding the chemistry and biology, including human studies, of the Eclipse cigarette.

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