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III. PHILIP MORRIS HAS NOT USED PATENTED PROCESSES 

 TO INCREASE OR MAINTAIN NICOTINE LEVELS 



Commissioner Kessler spent a great deal of his 

 recent testimony attempting to support the proposition 

 that Philip Morris may be using secret patented 

 processes to increase or maintain nicotine delivery in 

 our cigarettes. We are not. 



The processes described in the patents referred 

 to by Commissioner Kessler are not at all secret but, 

 rather, were publicly disclosed years ago, first to the 

 U.S. government and then to the world. 



Philip Morris in fact has never used any of the 

 processes described in these patents to increase, or 

 even maintain, nicotine levels in any of its products . 

 To the contrary, the only patents cited by Commissioner 

 Kessler which Philip Morris has ever used were for the 

 reduction and in some cases the virtual elimination of 

 nicotine. 



IV. CIGARETTE SMOKING IS NOT ADDICTIVE 



During the March 25 hearing. Dr. Kessler and some 

 Members of the Subcommittee contended that nicotine is 



