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state researchers had been interested in measuring extremely low 

 levels of blood nicotine in tobacco users, and later became 

 interested in studying the absorption by humans of nicotine from 

 snuff and chewing tobacco. The Pennsylvania State researchers 

 submitted a research proposal for a three-year study to pursue 

 this matter. Several tobacco companies, including U.S. Tobacco, 

 funded this research during the period 1978 to 1981. The document 

 relied upon by Dr. Connolly relates to the research conducted at 

 Pennsylvania State and was prepared by those researchers. The 

 results of that research are reflected in a 1983 publication by 

 the Pennsylvania State researchers in the journal Pharmacolocry . 



This project was part of the smokeless tobacco industry's 

 ongoing funding of research by independent investigators into 

 questions relating to smokeless tobacco and health which over the 

 years has totaled more than twenty-five million dollars and has 

 been acknowledged in nearly eight hundred scholarly articles and 

 abstracts in a wide spectrum of scientific publications. 



The Youth Allegations By Dr. Connolly 



Again relying on allegations made in the Marsee case. 

 Dr. Connolly asserts that U.S. Tobacco's Skoal Bandit product was 

 targeted at "new users, mainly cigarette smokers, age 15-35." 

 That allegation is also false. The document relied upon by 



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