sample="supplemental" bates="01328445" isource="pm" decade="1970" class="ne" date="19730507" NIH LIBRARY TRANSLATION From German for Dr. Frank Rauscher Mr. Leo Mai Ingenieurbüro (Engineering Bureau) 68 Mannheim 1 Stephanienufer 15 West Germany National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Md. 20014 May 17, 1973 Re: The detoxicated aromatic cigarette is here, without tar, carbon monoxide, nicotine. Gentlemen: Dr. Frank Rauscher stated in Louisville that a less dangerous cigarette may be on the market in 5 years. I wish to inform the US government that the "healthy cigarette" is already produced in West German. Tobacco is not the basic evil but rather the tobacco cooking, the tar production with produces 10 carcinogenic substances and 600 additional secondary products. We eliminated the tar production by having the suction only from the tip and no longer from the basic surface of the 900°C glowing cone. This also reduces the carbon monoxide production from 30 mg to 2 mg. The smoker need not die now 1-2 decades prematurely. Any changes of the tobacco are senseless when one does not eliminate the basic evil, tobacco cooking in the glowing cone. The German government has now established maximum amounts of poison in smoke so that smokers can no longer become ill with a tar lung and heart infarct. Please try to have the US Government to make these conditions obligatory for the cigarette industry. I am awaiting your reply. Very truly yours, /s/ L. Mai Encl: 1 Table, Brinkmann Bremen 1 drawing with explanation JChapin, translator 5/23/73