The companies already make cigarettes marketed as low tar and low nicotine.
'These things are like cotton wool,' he said, looking at a pack of low tar cigarettes beside him in his office in the House of Commons.
Matthew L. Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a Washington advocacy group, said cigarette companies had responded to bans of terms like "light" and "low tar" in at least 78 countries by color-coding their packaging to convey the same ideas.
Smoking habits reviewed were: age at onset, number of packets smoked per day, unfiltered or low tar cigarettes and attempts at smoking cessation.
The modelled gasifier is based on an up scaled version (∼500 kWth) of the demonstrated low tar gasifier, Viking, situated at the Technical University of Denmark.
The mean age at baseline examination was higher in the low tar or nicotine intake group than in the high tar or nicotine intake group.
So, cigarettes labeled as low-tar or ultra light are an even safer choice, right?
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.
One would ban the use of the terms "light" and "low tar".
Research has shown that the marketing of "low tar" cigarettes did not result in better health outcomes because smokers tended to smoke more or inhale more deeply on low-tar cigarettes.
