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EXHIBIT 2 A Short Explanation and Analysis of Methods of Measuring "Tar and Nicotine" in Cigarette Smoke Introduction Suggestions have been made from time to time that cigarette packages should indicate the amount of "tar and nicotine" produced by the smoking of the cigarettes in the package. Even if it were established that "tar and nicotine" have some relationship to health, chere is no method by which a smoker can be accurately informed of either the amount or the composition of the "tar and nicotine" he receives from the cigarettes he smokes, The term "tar and nicotine" requires clarification. Cigarette smoke consists of the particulate phase and the gas phase. The particulate phase has been referred to in scientific and other literature by a variety of terms, such as tars, smoke solids, solids, total solids, particulate matter, total particulate matter, smoke condensate; total smoke condensato and smoke condensables. One of the components of smoke solids is nicotine; the nicotine fraction of smoke solids is sometimes referred to as alkaloids, or total alkaloids. It seems more meaningful to use the term "total solids" instead of "tar", and such term will be used in this memorandum. HEST COPA 50101 3225