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in the Appendix.' 



Nicotine is lost during processing, and it can be (and is) 

 readded at multiple steps. Unlike the cigarette of 1950, the 

 final result is a product that is uniform and consistent. The 

 customer is thereby assured of a predictable subjective effect 

 from a given brand style. 



The added nicotine can be recycled within the factory or it 

 can be purchased from outside suppliers. The Bureau of Alcohol, 

 Tobacco and Firearms licenses Special Denatured Alcohol Number 4 

 (SDA 4) exclusively for use in the manufacture of tobacco 

 products. SDA 4 is prepared according to a formula found at 27 CFR 21.38. 

 (see Append-bc) Tobacco extracts, designed for specific applications 

 and with varying nicotine content, are available from 32 

 different suppliers in 10 different countries (Table 1) . 

 Nineteen extract suppliers are either based in the U. S. or have 

 subsidiaries here. The existence of so many suppliers suggests 

 that there is a relatively substantial market for these 

 materials. 



' LTR Industries, a subsidiary of Kimberly Clark, makes 

 reconstituted sheet with nicotine content that varies from 0.7 to 

 3.5 percent. (Silberstein, 1985) An advertisement for LTR's 

 sheet tobacco emphasizes this property. Another advertisement 

 attempts to persuade cigarette manufacturers to use sheet instead 

 of cut, rolled stems. It offers to process stems from a factory 

 into sheet and so reduce the overhead required to operate a stem 

 processing facility. Copies of both ads are included with the 

 statement . 



