Adding ammonia to cigarettes boosted nicotine delivery while dodging nicotine-level legal limits

Evidence

Company scientists found that ammonia speeds the body’s absorption of nicotine. This provided a means of increasing the nicotine “kick” without manipulating nicotine levels. Ammonia began to appear in cigarette products (Meier, 1998a). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1692

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to contemporary food-industry engineering (salt/sugar/fat ‘bliss points’) — a clean parallel mechanism of taste/formulation manipulation.