For decades, they knew the reality of the addictive
nature of nicotine and the carcinogenic effects of tobacco use.
The Government's Amended Complaint describes a four - decade long conspiracy, dating back to at least 1953, to intentionally and willfully deceive and mislead the American public about, inter alia, the harmful nature of tobacco products, the addictive
nature of nicotine, and harmfulness of low tar cigarettes.
Not exact matches
Their findings, published November 17 in the journal
Nature Neuroscience, show that in the core
of the brain's reward system are specific neurons that are active both with use
of and withdrawal from
nicotine.
2) The addictive
nature of tobacco and the extent to which the tobacco companies worked to increase
nicotine levels to maintain addiction.