Under its contract with H&V, Lorillard assumed sole responsibility for any harmful effects. It launched Kent at a press conference at New Yorks Waldorf-Astoria, touting the Micronite filter as the greatest health protection in cigarette history. Playing on the publics gee-whiz faith in science and technology, Kent ads told a glamorous, if vague, back story of how the quest for a new filter ended in an atomic energy plant, where the makers of KENT found a material being used to filter air of microscopic impurities. What is Micronite? another ad asked
however, a significant difference between older and younger adults is that only 1% of older adult never smokers try e-cigarettes, compared to 1040% of 1824-year-old never smokers.20 , 21 Safety and harm reduction are cited as rationales for e-cigarette use,22 but our study finds no evidence that e-cigarette users had less progression of chronic lung disease
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Conclusion Looking ahead to the 2026 legislative session, policymakers have a wide menu of options to improve health outcomes and better control the substantial costs of smoking