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Smokers who switch from regular cigarettes to "low tar" or "light" brands do not reduce their chances of getting diseases related to smoking, the National Cancer Institute said.
We knew that many smokers switch to low tar and light cigarettes rather than quitting because they believe low tar and lights are less harmful.
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But the fast-food addict who is thrilled by news of new, improved French fries is much like the smoker who believes switching to low-tar cigarettes is a sign of terrific progress.
Dr. Horn himself believed that if an outright ban on cigarette advertising could not be achieved, confining the advertising that was done to low-tar-and-nicotine brands had some value, since his own research on smoking habits had shown that for some habitual smokers a switch from high- to low-tar-and-nicotine cigarettes was a way station toward ridding themselves of the habit altogether.
Switching to low-tar cigarettes, he says, may lower the risk of some diseases, but it won't protect you from the real killers: "You're not going to change your risk of cancer or heart disease".
In fact, one might have expected the switch to cigarettes delivering low tar to have reduced the hazard of lung cancer, but this effect is being offset by the 'maturing' of the smoking epidemic, and thus smokers still alive in more recent years have had a longer history of regular consumption of cigarettes than men of the same ages would have had during the 1950s and 1960s.
It is much better to quit than to switch to a low-tar brand.
The new NCI monograph on cigarettes low in tar and nicotine led to headlines like "The Low Tar Myth".
He stopped drinking hard liquor and switched to wine; he smoked low tar cigarettes; he still did his taut set of push-ups every morning.
She ordered tobacco companies to stop labeling cigarettes as "low tar," "light," "ultra light" or "mild," because such cigarettes have been found to be no safer than others because of how people smoke them.
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