22nd Century, a plant
biotech company with proprietary technology that decreases the levels of
nicotine and other nicotinic alkaloids in the tobacco, reports that its wholly
owned subsidiary, Goodrich Tobacco Company, has delivered an additional 5.5
million SPECTRUM® government research cigarettes.
SPECTRUM was developed by
22nd Century for the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a department of
the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), as a subcontractor under a
federal government contract. As the only company in the world capable of
producing very low nicotine (VLN) tobacco products, 22nd Century was chosen by
NIDA to supply its proprietary cigarettes, which are distributed free of charge
to researchers carrying out independent studies.
Including this recent
shipment, Goodrich Tobacco has delivered more than 17 million SPECTRUM
cigarettes to NIDA, equating to 850,000 packs of 20 cigarettes.
The main SPECTRUM product
line consists of a series of 24 cigarette styles, each with a set “tar” yield
but with varying nicotine yields over a 50-fold range from very low to high.
SPECTRUM is strictly for research purposes and will not be sold as a commercial
cigarette.
Many research studies are
being conducted with SPECTRUM, including studies comparing how different
nicotine levels in cigarettes affect smoking behavior and exposure to smoke
compounds; smoking cessation studies; and studies to determine whether there is
a threshold nicotine level in cigarettes that do not produce dependence.
22nd Century will use the
results from these studies in conjunction with its own research studies to
support two reduced-risk applications that it plans to file with the U.S. Food
and Drug administration (FDA) in 2014 for two types of cigarettes in
development: BRAND A, which has approximately 95 percent less nicotine than
cigarettes previously marketed as “lights”; and BRAND B, with smoke containing
a significantly low amount of “tar” per milligram of nicotine.
For more information visit:
www.xxiicentury.com
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