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Beyond its well established infrastructure, North Carolina is home to the headquarters of some of the worlds largest tobacco companies

Only eight other states provide at least 50% of CDC-recommended funding levels

Chemicals in tobacco products and your health

Saturate your day with a creamy smoke from Arrowhead Blue Pipe Tobacco, a product made with an olden Native American recipe that has withstood the test of time

And tobacco companies discovered long ago that adding ammonia to cigarette tobacco created a form of nicotine that was more desirable, and more addictive to the user

Jha, MD, George Washington University School of Medicine, and Alan Blum, MD, University of Alabama School of Medicine, presented at the World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Singapore, 2012