Question about cigarettes.

[Little Star]

I am doing some research.

Does anyone know where I can find out the amount of nicotine in US cigarettes?
For the moment I don't care about the other crap that is in them like tar and other additives. I also am not interested (for right now) what amount of nicotine is actually inhaled into the body.

I have been googling all day to find out the amount of nicotine in each US brand cigarettes.

The net seems to talk about everything but that specific aspect. Is it that I just can't find it or is it a trade secret?

Thanks for any help.

[monmouth]

1. Did you try the Surgeon General's website? Lots of info there I bet...n/t

[Little Star]

6. Thanks. I took a look and they don't seem to say the amount of nicotine

actually in any cigarette. However reading there gave me a different way to word my search.

This is what I found:
The total nicotine content of tobacco and percent nicotine (by weight of tobacco)
averaged 10.2 mg (standard error of the mean (SEM) 0.25, range: 7.2 to 13.4) and 1.5% (SEM 0.03, range 1.2 to 2) in the United States.
13.5 mg (SEM 0.49, range: 8.0 to 18.3) and 1.8% (SEM 0.06, range: 1.0 to 2.4) in Canada.
12.5 mg (SEM 0.33, range: 9 to 17.5) and 1.7% (SEM 0.04, range: 1.3 to 2.4) in the United Kingdom.

Now if I was only smart enough to know what it says in plain english.

[monmouth]

10. Haha, I can understand that. Waaay over my head...n/t

[Luminous Animal]

2. I found this by googling nicotine by brand.

http://pw1.netcom.com/~rdavis2/smoke.html

But it also states this:
"NOTE: As indicated following each table, the source for the numbers is the Report of Tar, Nicotine, and Carbon Monoxide of the Smoke of 1206 Varieties of Domestic Cigarettes For the Year 1994. Anyone using the tables should therefore check the numbers against the most recent available source. For FTC reports, this appears to be Tar, Nicotine, and Carbon Monoxide of the Smoke of 1294 Varieties of Domestic Cigarettes For the Year 1998. According to an article at http://freegovinfo.info/archive/200608, the last report was released in September 1999 and the Federal Trade Commission has continued collecting data on nicotine but has not published reports on the findings. However, there is an FTC document posted in response to a request under the Freedom of Information Act at http://www.ftc.gov/foia/frequentrequests/foia2007-00482.pdf. It appears to contain the tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide content of most major brands of cigarettes from 1998 through 2005.

Until late 2008, you could find even more recent figures for the tar and nicotine content of cigarettes manufactured by Philip Morris on their website. An explanation for their removal can be found on this page. Following is an excerpt:

On November 26, 2008, however, the FTC rescinded its 1966 guidance. In support of its decision, the FTC stated that, "there is now a consensus among the public health and scientific communities that the Cambridge Fi
nicotine tar mg "Now menthol"

Of course, you can substitute any other brand in for "Now menthol". In any case, following are the sites that I tracked down:

http://www.bigsixsmokes.com/
http://www.cigarette-discount.net/
http://www.cigarettes-below-cost.com/
http://www.cheaptobacco.org/lter Method is sufficiently flawed that statements of tar and nicotine yields as measured by that method are not likely to help consumers make informed decisions."

Whichever source you use, be careful to note the precise brand and packaging as the content can vary widely in similar varieties. For example, the figures given for Carlton cigarettes at http://www.bigsixsmokes.com/Carlton.shtml indicate that 120s have about five times the tar and nicotine content of Kings and 100s."

[Little Star]

7. Thanks, I'll take a look.

[Bluebear]

3. Don't know if this will help:

The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL) contains more than 13 million documents (70+ million pages) created by major tobacco companies related to their advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research activities.

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/

[Little Star]

8. Thanks. I'll take a look.

[Contrary1]

4. This is from the Federal Trade Commission and covers the years 1998-2005

http://www.ftc.gov/foia/frequentrequests/foia2007-00482.pdf

[Little Star]

9. Thanks, I'll take a look.

[stevedeshazer]

5. Cigarettes are radioactive.

They contain polonium-210.

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/42544/title/Radioactive_cigarettes

It's a little off-topic, but just in case other folks didn't know.

[applegrove]

11. Ask at the Quitnet.com They answer all sorts of questions there as they

have thousands of people there all quitting.

[Little Star]

12. Thanks. Will do tomorrow cause I'm just to tired right now &

need to go to bed. Thanks again.:hi: