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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
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| | Chapter 21 Low tar and nicotine cigarettes: health and safety |
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| | A 1993 Gallup survey found that 48.6 percent of adults think that smoking low tar |
| | brands is safer. But a wealth of scientific evidence contradicts this; low yield |
| | cigarettes can be a greater hazard. "Worried smokers are convinced that lower tar |
| | and nicotine means safer. The smoking public has bought the low tar bill of goods, |
| | and the cigarette makers are cashing in on the very health fear that they and their |
| | product have created. The tragedy is that their 'safer' alternative is not safe at all." |
| | Reader's Digest, April 1994 |
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| | "Smoking low tar and nicotine cigarettes is the equivalent of jumping out of the 29th |
| | floor of a building rather than the 31st floor." |
| | American Journal of Public Health, January 1992, p.17 (Kenneth Warner and John |
| | Slade) |
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