Philip Morris USA reports certain types of cigarette product information to various state and federal agencies.
For example, we report tar and nicotine numbers and other information for our cigarettes to the Federal Trade Commission, typically on an annual basis. We annually report nicotine yield numbers and other information to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Texas. We annually report information regarding the presence of designated tobacco substances to the State of Minnesota.
In addition, we annually report cigarette ingredient information for cigarettes sold in the U.S. to the Department of Health and Human Services and for cigarettes sold in Texas to the State of Texas. Some of the information submitted to these agencies on a confidential basis relates to detailed brand recipes which, if disclosed publicly, would compromise our ability to maintain valuable trade secrets for competitive purposes. Therefore, the reports are not posted to this website.
