During 1997, defendant cigarette manufacturers entered into settlement agreements with two states – Mississippi¹ on July 3 and Florida² on August 25 – as well as with plaintiffs in the Broin flight attendant case³ on October 9. These settlements required payments of $896.8 million in 1997, including $246.8 million to Mississippi, $650 million to Florida, and $149 million to the Broin plaintiffs.⁴ During 1998, manufacturers have thus far entered into new settlement agreements with the state of Texas⁵ on January 16 and most recently with the state of Minnesota ⁶ and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Minnesota 5 on May 8.

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by Dan Jaffe and Laurie Chavass,  J.College Sci. Teaching, pgs.172-176, Dec. 1999.

We have found that measurements of environmentally relevant parameters generate some of the greatest student enthusiasm in our freshmen chemistry laboratories. In this regard we have developed a lab exercise to investigate and compare the carbon monoxide content of automobile exhaust and cigarette smoke using equipment available in most undergraduate labs. This experiment uses gas chromatography with thermal conductivity detection to analyze for the % by volume concentrations typically found in cigarette smoke and auto exhaust. Students are usually surprised to discover that cigarette smoke has a much higher CO concentration than does the exhaust from a clean, well maintained vehicle.

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