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This investigation was supported in part by Research Grant PCM7609314 from the National Science Foundation, Project KTRB-053 from the Tobacco and Health Research Institute, University of Kentucky, and Grant IR0IGM23902 from the National Institutes of Health. 

Supported by the University of Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station and Tobacco and Health Research Institute, and by Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., Nutley, New Jersey. I thank Dr. R.B. Griffith, Dr. L.H. Chen, Dr. G.C. Gairola, and Mr. R.R. Thacker for their collaboration and assistance. 

Nadkami, R.A. and W.D. Ehmann Determination of hace elements in tobacco products by neuhon activation analysis Proc. 1969 Tob. and Health Workshop, Lexington, Kentucky, Tobacco and Health Research Institute, University of Kentucky, Conf. Rep. No. 1, pp. 47-57. Nadkami, R.A. and W.D. Ehmann Further analyses of University of Kentucky reference and alkaloid series cigarettes by instrumental neutron activation analysis Radiochem. Radioanal. Lett. 4 (1970) 325-335. Nadkami, R.A. and W.D. Ehmann Instrumental neutron activation analysis of tobacco products Proc. Modem Trends in Activation Analysis, Gaithersburg, MD, 1968, National Bureau of Standards (Washington, DC) Publ. No. 312(1969) 190-196. 

Davis, D.L., W.O Atkinson, and W. Dorough Residues of maleic hydrazide in hurley tobacco Proceedings of the 5th Workshop Conference (1979) pp. 124—140, The Tobacco and Health Research Institute, University of Kenmcky. 

The authors thank Hr. John Loughrin for assistance In carrying out analyses. We are Indebted to the Tobacco Health Research Institute and Mr. Charles Hughes for mass spectral analyses. 

This work was supported by research grants from the National Institutes of Health (HL-35014 HL-40922), the Laubisch Fund for Cardiovascular Research, and the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program. The author is grateful to Diane Rome Peebles for preparing the illustrations. 

Acknowledgements Support from the National Institutes of Health (DK075936 to L.P.J. and DK079008 to J.A.H.), from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, from the Arkansas Children s Hospital Research Institute, and from the Arkansas Biosciences Institute, the major research component of the Arkansas Tobacco Settlement Proceeds Act of 2000 is gratefully acknowledged. 

The author is grateful to Dr. P.L. Bounds and Dr. D. Bartlett for critical comments during the preparation of this manuscript. Supported by grants from The Council for Tobacco Research - USA, Inc. and by the National Institutes of Health (GM48829). 

These and many other in-house reports on PAHs demonstrate that the early PAH research was not limited to academic or governmental laboratories or to laboratories at private institutions such as the Sloan-Kettering Institute, American Health Foundation, or Roswell Park Memorial Institute. Many of the tobacco industry reports on PAHs listed above may now be accessed at the Internet addresses cited in the references. 

Acknowledgments. We thank Stephanie Tribuna for help in preparing the manuscript and John F. Keaney for critical reading of the manuscript. The work in B.F. s laboratory is supported by the United States National Institutes of Health (Grants HL-49954 and ES-06593) and the Council for Tobacco Research, U.S.A., Inc. (Grant 3412). 

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