Employers who refuse to obey the safety law on the No. 1 hazard identified by the Surgeon General typically have little regard for the rest of the safety issue. Employers must obey both the general words and the specific numerics. An employer who said, 'we'll obey the number, not the general rule' was found guilty of noncompliance with both federal and state law when a Detroit-area worker was killed on the job as a result. These toxic emissions are due to cigarettes' inherently deleterious nature and ingredients. In this context, it is easier to understand why cigarette emissions are so fatal.
All cigarettes contain deleterious ingredients .
In fact, medically, cigarettes are inherently dangerous. The Michigan law specifying that only safe cigarettes can be manufactured, given away, and sold was passed soon thereafter, in 1909. Thomas Edison exposed an aspect of the cigarette hazard in 1914 . The cigarettes and cancer connection was published as long ago as 1925 . The Michigan House of Representatives received a report on cigarette hazards over a century ago, in 1889 .