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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedVector seeking FDA guidance on smoking-cessation claim.(Industry News)(Vector Group Ltd.)(nicotine-free Quest cigarettes)
Tobacco Retailer, December, 2003
Miami-based Vector Group Ltd. has announced that in a preliminary study on its reduced nicotine and nicotine-free Quest cigarettes, 33 percent of Quest 3 smokers were able to achieve four-week continuous abstinence, a standard threshold for smoking cessation.
Jed E. Rose, Ph.D., director of Duke University Medical Center's Nicotine Research Program and co-inventor of the nicotine patch, conducted the study at Duke University Medical Center to provide preliminary evaluation of the use of the Quest technology as a smoking-cessation aid. Quest brand cigarettes are currently marketed solely to permit smokers who wish to continue smoking to gradually reduce their intake of nicotine. The products are not labeled or advertised for smoking cessation or as a safer form...
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