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      1. Cigarettes' Addictiveness

      The BBC shared research carried out by the American Society of Hematology and Imperial Cancer Research Fund, which found that Big Tobacco has being doing everything in its power to ensure that the cigarettes they produce are as addictive as possible.

      How have they gone about achieving this goal? By allegedly using additives that enhance taste while increasing the amount of nicotine delivered with each puff.

      What’s more, the findings claim that these additives include “sweeteners and chocolate used to make cigarettes more palatable to children” and that “eugenol and menthol are added to numb the throat to mask the aggravating effects of tobacco smoke”.

      Of course, Big Tobacco fired back by pointing out that any additives they may or may not be using are actually allowed by government. Then, when the state of Massachusetts forced tobacco companies to disclose the exact list of additives used by all brands, the industry wasted no time filing a lawsuit. Suspicious? You don’t say.

      “Outside the tobacco industry, no one knows which additives are used in which brands,” Dr. Martin Jarvis, who works for the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, told the BBC. "The tobacco companies' excuse for using additives is that they make low tar cigarettes easier to smoke. We know that low tar cigarettes are just as bad for you as regular cigarettes, so using additives cannot be justified.”
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