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29. Here is the discussion off CNN 1998 archives:

Expert: Ammonia added to cigarettes
TOBACCO COMPANIES
February 04, 1998

Pointing to internal company documents, Channing Robertson, testifying on behalf of the state on Wednesday, said that in 1965, scientists at R.J. Reynolds, trying to find out why their Winston brand was losing ground to Philip Morris Marlboro brand, discovered that Marlboro contained ammonia compounds.

Robertson, a Stanford University professor of chemical engineering, said ammonia increases the nicotine potency of cigarettes by increasing the amount of nicotine contained in the vapor smokers inhale.

In the 1970s, Reynolds started adding ammonia and slowly but surely, everyone fell in line, he said.