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RECENTLY, Cooper and Lindsey1 and Seelkopf2 described the identification and assay of the carcinogen 3,4-benzpyrene and other poly cyclic hydrocarbons in a neutral aromatic fraction of cigarette smoke. These investigators, in the attempt to reconstruct conditions complying with those present in normal human cigarette smoking, smoked cigarettes in an automatic fashion which effected strictly regular intermittent puffing.
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LYONS, M. Assay of Possible Carcinogenic Hydrocarbons from Cigarette Smoke. Nature 177, 630–631 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177630a0
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