Pumping up the nicotine

We'll have an editorial on the topic over the holiday weekend, but I wanted to throw this item out for discussion.

It seems cigarette makers have been increasing the nicotine content of cigarettes, making it easier to hook people and harder for them to break the addiction.

For a link to the report, go here: http://www.mass.gov/dph/ and then click on the links related to nicotine.

A lot of smokers are still in denial about the health effects of their habit. I'm waiting for them to respond to this.