Vice Squad
Thursday, June 03, 2004
 
Flavoured Smokes Being Tested By British American Tobacco
- posted by Jim Leitzel @ 6:29 PM

Those cheeky Brits. In the US there are efforts underway to try to ban flavoured cigarettes, but that has not prevented British American Tobacco from testing flavoured cigarettes -- even alcohol flavoured cigarettes! -- on non-human animals in North America, no less:
Britain's largest tobacco company is testing chocolate, cherry, maple syrup, tea, vanilla and alcohol-flavored cigarettes, The Independent reports.

British American Tobacco, whose brands include Rothmans and Lucky Strike, has been carrying out scientific trials on animals in Canada, infuriating anti-smoking lobbies in Britain.
As popular as alcohol is, it hasn't proven all that successful as a general flavour, has it? More importantly, will alcohol-flavoured cigarettes make life difficult for Rex, the alcohol-sniffing dog?

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