Industry Executives Knew Nicotine Addictive NEW YORK, Oct 06 Reuters A close analysis of industry documents suggests that tobacco company executives have known for decades that nicotine is addictive, and that nicotine addiction can be perpetuated and even enhanced through cigarette design alterations, according to a report in October 7th issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association. That the industry knew of the dictiveness of nicotine and perpetuated that addiction through manipulation of nicotine is clear from the documents we reviewed, write Dr. Richard Hurt of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and Dr. Channing Robertson of Stanford University in Stanford, California. They note that these documents are available to the public on the Internet at ww.mnbluecrosstobacco or at the Minnesota Depository Their article, entitled Prying Open the Door to the Tobacco Industrys Secrets about Nicotine, is based on a review of internal industry literature made public during a 1994 lawsuit filed by the state of Minnesota against the Brown and Williamson tobacco company Hurt and Robertson note that after smoking was first linked to cancer in the early 1950s, tobacco executives moved quickly to create a strategy of creating doubt and controversy over the scientific evidence. In one 1954 document, for example, an industry official wrote that future advertising campaigns must aim to free millions of Americans from the guilty fear that is going to

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