Philip Morris Cigarette Production of Highly Hazardous

As we all know, smoking is dangerous. With smoking, we might as well reap the seeds of disease in the body. Although the government has warned of the dangers of smoking hard, there are still many smokers and tobacco companies are not ignoring it. Moreover, tobacco companies even more incentive in producing cigarettes. Philip Morris, the largest cigarette company in the United States, for one.

As quoted by page zeenews, recently, Philip Morris was judged to have manipulated data on effects of cigarette additives. The company has been hiding the actual toxicity while producing a decent standard cigarettes. In fact, tobacco contains so many additives that are at risk of causing heart disease, cancer, and other ailments. According to research by the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).

Research Team headed by Stanton A. Glantz also found hundreds of additives, including menthol in cigarettes Philip Morris. According to him, these substances should be eliminated from cigarettes for the sake of public health. "From the analysis, there are about 20 percent of chemical carcinogens contained in cigarette butts by Philip Morris," Glantz said.

In Indonesia, Philip Morris' Marlboro cigarettes has been producing since 1984. Marlboro is one of the best-selling cigarettes in Indonesia.