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TMA notice on Lower Ignition Propensity (LIP) cigarettesUnder new EU safety standards all cigarettes placed in the market from 17 November 2011…
TMA responds to the planned consultation on plain packagingResponding to the Government’s proposal to launch a consultation on plain packaging in Spring 2012,…
The UK Benchmark Study
The Final Report of the UK Smoke Constituents Testing Study (The ‘UK Benchmark’ Study)
The study was requested by the UK Department of Health during the Summer of 2001 as a single point in time sample of production cigarettes available in the UK.
The Department of Health nominated an independent contract laboratory, LGC Limited (now Arista Laboratories, Europe), to perform the study and requested that TMA member companies fund the entire study.
As a goodwill gesture the UK-based Member Companies of the TMA – British American Tobacco, Gallaher Ltd and Imperial Tobacco Ltd – agreed to fund this study and committed to making its results available to members of the public. The content of the website fulfils this commitment.