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By David Kessler. 492 pp. New York, PublicAffairs, 2001. $16.50. ISBN 1-58648-121-5.

Since the mid-1960s, Congress has passed a plethora of bills intended to protect Americans against addictive drugs, toxic substances, and defective consumer products. An alphabet soup of agencies with regulatory authority for health and safety has banned substances from cosmetics and food, required the repair of defective baby cribs and sport utility vehicles, restricted the exposure of workers to acrolein and carbon monoxide, and set maximal limits on arsenic in the water and nitrogen dioxide in outdoor air.

Tobacco smoke contains acrolein, carbon monoxide, arsenic, nitrogen dioxide, and well over 4000 other chemicals, more than 40 of which are known . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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