Should the FDA Ban Cigarette Filter Ventilation?

A partir de documents d'industries du tabac et d'une revue systématique de la littérature, cette étude évalue l'association entre la ventilation des filtres des cigarettes et le risque d'adénocarcinome du poumon

Résumé en anglais

Does ventilation of cigarette filters by tiny holes increase risk for adenocarcinoma of the lung? In this issue, Song and colleagues conclude that the answer is “yes,” based on their weight-of-evidence review of an array of relevant literature, both peer reviewed and from tobacco industry documents (1). Their affirmative conclusion has regulatory implications under the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (TCA) (2) and leads them to propose that “thus, the FDA should consider regulating its use, up to and including a ban…”