The Surgeon General wasn't born yet. Not any S.G. who would eventually advise against smoking, anyway.

Cigarettes may not have been nearly so deadly back in RJ's time, assuming that they were still made from unadulterated tobacco and a little scrap of paper.

Nicotine is the addictive element that makes the tobacco business such a sure thing, guaranteeing that most buyers will become lifelong regular customers.

You'd think that would be enough for the greedheads of RJR and their fellow profiteers, but no. They find it necessary to load their products up with hundreds of chemical additives, all of them designed to make the stuff even more addictive, and many of them downright poisonous.

Ain't unregulated capitalism wonderful?