1. Already, Wigand has filed an affidavit in a private Massachusetts lawsuit suggesting that the tobacco industry chose not to produce cigarettes less likely to start fires. 2. Already, Philip Morris produces cigarettes at its own plants in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Russia. 3. British American Tobacco produces cigarettes nearby, and John Deere assembles tractors. 4. But the tobacco industry fears that the FDA would use greater authority to order nicotine to such low levels that manufacturers could not legally produce cigarettes. 5. Florida, after all, produced cigarettes in its prison system for years -- a practice it has defended in an unrelated lawsuit. 6. Given that the primary pleasure of smoking is the nicotine rush, do nonsmokers understand how little sense it makes to complain about the practice of producing strong cigarettes? 7. In that case, the company is taxed on that income by the country in which the cigarettes are produced, Davies said. 8. In that case, the company pays sales tax to the country in which the cigarettes are produced, Davies said. 9. In those cases, the company is taxed on that income by the country in which the cigarettes are produced, he said. 10. Machine-made cigarettes are also produced at Kediri. |