Philip Morris USA annually reports information regarding the presence of designated substances in tobacco and tobacco smoke to the State of Texas.
Since 1999, cigarette companies, including PM USA, have reported to the State of Texas product ingredient information, as well as nicotine yield numbers using a machine testing method which differs from the method historically used by the FTC and using values calculated from nicotine yield numbers reported to the FTC. Please note that on November 26, 2008, the FTC rescinded its prior guidance that it would permit statements of tar and nicotine yields, if such statements were based on the results of a standardized machine test method - the Cambridge Filter Method, frequently referred to as "the FTC Method." In support of its decision, the FTC stated that, "there is now a consensus among the public health and scientific communities that the Cambridge Filter Method is sufficiently flawed that statements of tar and nicotine yields as measured by that method are not likely to help consumers make informed decisions." As a result of the FTC's rescission of guidance, PM USA has removed tar and nicotine yields, as measured by the Cambridge Filter Method, from this website and is in the process of removing such yields from its advertising and other consumer communications. Read the full text of the
FTC's Recsission of Guidance. In addition, public health authorities have concluded that machine test methods are not an accurate way of determining the amount of tar or nicotine a smoker may inhale.
Copies of the reports PM USA submitted on nicotine yield numbers to the Texas Department of State Health Services can be viewed by clicking below:
