Worms and bugs found in cigarettes

This article is part of the Tobacco portal on Sourcewatch funded from 2006 - 2009 by the American Legacy Foundation.

• I am very concerned and devistated that I smoked these bugs
• Parade of bugs exiting the pack
• These cigarettes are full of worms
• Worms and Bugs memo(RJR, 1983. Worms and bug complaints cause consumers to switch brands)
• I am returning 8 cartons and three packs of your 100 lights...because they have worms in them
• I bought a carton of Camel Special Lites and I found tobacco worms in 3 pks
• Letter from an attorney threatening litigation after a woman who was harmed after smoking cigarettes containing live worms and bugs (Lorillard, 1986)
• Menthol inhibits cigarette beetle egg laying and shows some insecticidal action toward the beetle (at Page 1, Ref. no. 1416)
• Very visible tunnels in filter caused by a tobacco beetle(RJR, 1988)
• Complaint- Iceland Camel filter soft pack "significant cigarette beetle damage...live larvae in one pack" (RJR, 1996)
• Customer complaint- coughey Vantage
• Critical Complaint Report. 221880384.CARL SIMMONS RJR, 1999. (White powder on tongue made by tobacco beetle larvae)
• http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/ozc51c00 CRITICAL COMPLAINT REPORT. CONSUMER SAID "TASTE IS AWFUL AND SOME SORT OF BLACK SUBSTANCE GETS IN HER MOUTH WHEN SHE INHALES"](RJR, 1999)
• Insect Related Customer Complaint Cigarette beetle frass observed throughout the pack (Philip Morris, 1997)
• FACTORY COCKROACH INFESTATION RJR, 1986.

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