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Title: Reuters: Companies use menthol to hook young smokers: study
Post by: natalie on July 17, 2008, 12:41:20 AM
Companies use menthol to hook young smokers: study
      


CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tobacco companies manipulate the amount of menthol in cigarettes to make those first few puffs more palatable to young smokers, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday in a finding that could fuel support for more tobacco regulation.
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