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Originally Posted by BonnyW
Sorry to be a kill-joy...  Okay, I'm not...
I used to believe the hype about the low tar and nicotine cigarettes. Not anymore.
The research does back up this article...It is just that this article is so much easier to read. |
I agree Bonny, the lighter smokes aren't any healthier, but if you can wean yourself down to smoke the lighter cigs, and smoke them the same way as the heavier ones, much like the smoking machines, you will get less tar and nicotine.
Back in the early 90's I smoked the heaviest smokes I could, being young and immortal, even enjoyed filterless "lung stunners" as we called them. Fog back a 25 pack of those in a night of drinking, there's a ton of bricks on your chest in the morning!
By the late 90's I was smoking a "Ultra, crazy, insanity Light" smoke by Craven A. It was rated 1/10th the tar and nicotine of the previous smokes I enjoyed. It took a while, but eventually these King Sized softies gave me my mental security of smoking, they had full flavor I was used to, I got my fix. Others would bum a smoke off me, and even with monstrous drags, complain of zero taste, nada, none.
Going from a "full flavor" to a "medium or light" smoke isn't enough of a step, you need to jump to the super ultra lights, where even with huge drags the content of nicotine and tar will be reduced.