Superfund Record of Decision: Lang Property Pemberton Township, NJ USEPA/ROD/R02-86/031 (1987)]**PEER REVIEWED** Atmospheric Concentrations: SOURCE DOMINATED: Acetone was detected at 22 source dominated sites in the USA at a median concn of 0.350 ppb and a maximum concn of 53 ppb(1)
"While anecdotal evidence can probably [be] found to assert that Tobaccos marketing behavior caused certain smoking-related illnesses and therefore some health care costs, the Government offers no evidence to quantify such a contention," the judges ruled
The theoretical and methodological approach was the same one that would be used in later studies by this group: "Since the DSM-IV definition of nicotine dependence does not allow for the possibility that dependence might start before "prolonged heavy use", the DSM-IV criteria were not used in this study
They also run Cigar Advisor, a blog that covers cigar reviews, tips, and guides
It tracks cigarettes not smoked, money saved, and life regained using WHO estimates on smoking-related life loss - the "life regained" number starts small and builds in a way that compounds psychologically over weeks