Lorillard is Confident About Menthol Science

Source from:  Tobacco Reporter 03/26/2010

Lorillard said yesterday that it was looking forward to working with the US Food and Drug Administration's Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee and contributing to its scientific review of menthol and other topics. Dr. J. Daniel Heck, Lorillard's principal scientist, will serve as a non-voting representative of the tobacco manufacturing industry on the committee. Lorillard said too that it remained confident that a serious examination of the best available menthol science would show no support for the assertion that menthol impacted public health. Heck had more than 30 years of professional experience in research and a strong record of peer-reviewed articles and studies, the company said. His most recent manuscript, a comprehensive review of the use of menthol as a cigarette flavoring, was published in the January 2010 issue of Food and Chemical Toxicology. Enditem