Low Nicotine Cigarettes News in Science ABC Science
By Karl S. Kruszelnicki
About 90% of smokers know that smoking is bad for their health. About 60% of smokers want to give up, but can't. So, about four times every week, the average
Cigarettes For Sale Online GP will hear an addicted smoker say, "Look Doc, I'm already cutting down. See, I've started smoking low nicotine cigarettes", or something like that. The poor smokers have fallen for the myth that low nicotine cigarettes deliver less nicotine into their bodies.
Back in the 1970s, 70% of Australians smoked cigarettes. But in the 1980s and 1990s, repeated public health awareness campaigns told the public about the health risks of smoking cigarettes. The tobacco companies had an answer - their own publicity campaigns to reassure smokers that cigarettes were now safer than they were in the past. They said that they reduced the cancer-causing tars by two methods. First, they used different parts of the tobacco plant, and second, they introduced filters to block the tar from getting into the lungs.
This wasn't enough to counter the falling cigarette sales, so the tobacco companies then introduced the "light" or "mild" cigarettes, that supposedly delivered even lower levels of tar
Buy Cheap Cigarettes Online into the lungs. These light or mild cigarettes have tiny holes punched into the filter, when they are being made. The tobacco companies tested the light or mild cigarettes by hooking them up to a sucking machine. And sure enough, as the sucking machine sucked on the cigarette, it also sucked air in through the tiny holes. This extra air diluted the tar, and yes, the sucking machine did register less tar and nicotine coming in.
