remember all the unfiltered cigarettes of yesteryear? so you would think those cigarettes would be stronger, right? no, they're saying. they attribute this to a change in the chemicals which have been added in recent years to cigarettes. the researchers compared cigarettes in the united states with cigarettes in australia, and here's what they found. that cigarettes smoked in australia have a much lower level of a compound known as tobacco specific nitrosone ph*e s. it causes a type of lung cancer called adeno carcinoma. rates of this lung cancer are much lower in australia leading researchers to conclude that the content of cigarettes are exposing american smokers to a higher risk. and so this suggests that lung cancer rates could be reduced by regulatory control of additives to tobacco products. that's what this bill will do. it will give the federal drug administration the ability to make the cigarettes smoked in this country less dangerous, less addictive. they can ratchet down chemical components and addictive qualities that are add