Smoking and Tobacco Control Monograph No. 7 
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ABOUT THE MONOGRAPH 
This volume is the seventh in the series of Smoking and Tobacco Control 
monographs published by the National Cancer Institute since 1991. The 
monographs were specifically established by NCI to provide an authoritative 
source of information about issues important to those individuals and 
institutions involved in smoking and tobacco use control. 
This report was compiled in response to a request to the National Cancer 
Institute by the then Chairman of the Subcommittee on Health and the 
Environment, U.S. House of Representatives, asking that a scientific panel of 
experts be convened to review and make recommendations on the accuracy 
and appropriateness of the Federal Trade Commission's test method for 
assessing constituent yields for cigarettes on the U.S. market. The NCI 
received a similar but more detailed letter from the Chairman of the Federal 
Trade Commission in which the Commission outlined several areas for the 
NCI ad hoc committee to consider (see page xix). 
The Coordinator of NCI's Smoking and Tobacco Control Program, who 
was given overall responsibility for the project, established a small informal 
advisory group consisting of individuals from the FTC and various PHS 
agencies to help organize the conference, suggest committee members, and 
plan the agenda. 
The NCI Ad Hoc Committee of the President's Cancer Panel on the 
FTC Test Method for Determining Tar, Nicotine, and Carbon Monoxide 
Levels in Cigarettes was convened December 5-6, 1994, in Bethesda, MD. 
Harold P. Freeman, M.D., Chairman of the President's Cancer Panel, also 
chaired these proceedings. 
However, prior to the December conference the 1 1 members of the NCI 
ad hoc committee (these individuals are identified in the "Acknowledgments" 
to the monograph) were provided several resource materials in support of 
their deliberations. These resources included copies of the 1981 Surgeon 
General's report The Health Consequences of Smoking: The Changing Cigarette. 
A Report of the Surgeon General, a detailed bibliography of the relevant 
worldwide scientific literature, and a copy of an NCI-commissioned White 
Paper titled "Overview of 1980 to 1994 Research Related to the Standard 
Federal 'Trade Commission Test Method for Cigarettes." The White Paper, 
which is published as Section IV of this monograph, represents a noncritical 
