Risks Associated With Smoking Cigarettes With Low Machine-Measured Yields of Tar and Nicotine

Updates The FTC Cigarette Test Method for Determining Tar, Nicotine, & Carbon Monoxide Yields of U.S. Cigarettes,Ó bringing us up to date on the FTC method & providing suggestions as to what can be done to help alert the public to the dangers of smoking. Includes a discussion on the continued health risks to smokers, even those who smoke a low-tar/low-nicotine cigarette. Describes how changes in the cig. design affect a person's smoking habit. Points out how the tobacco co's. ads have changed to match the public preference for low-tar/low-nicotine cig. Tobacco co's. developed cig. designs that lowered the tar & nicotine yield results. Yet, these cig. can be manipulated by the smoker to increase the intake of tar & nicotine. Charts & tables.Shopland, Donald R. is the author of 'Risks Associated With Smoking Cigarettes With Low Machine-Measured Yields of Tar and Nicotine' with ISBN 9780756726751 and ISBN 0756726751.