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Low Tar Cigarettes

ASH
Mar 1999
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Summary

Why Low Tar Cigarettes Don’t Work and How the Tobacco Industry Has Fooled the Smoking Public.

Smokers could be forgiven for believing that low tar cigarettes deliver less tar to the smoker’s lungs. However, the actual tar exposure, and hence health risk, from smoking low tar brands may be almost the same as for conventional cigarettes.