SEIM(ak-nuLngto
S, a @LeLly met
(d.2sputed,
----V. would ;e: ftilm a higher.
!)y Oliver Gil!,'c tar cigar tic. T`-r Toramo Scion-
c
Aledical Correci-)ndent 9 I &,A atijillsre: aS-loking
nlachinc to $make ;n tile SM.-no
'Aly as a low -Ir smoker wro
blacks the ' Lies 3nd pui7s
Nf OR E THAN a niNion ;@;re. Thc:r --e'"Irl. puahsheai
smokers :it Britain ieve
et
thcy are :educing ;!'I
by buyivc law-tar c!:3rcrtes
"I e mwa;.en. resea::.h suit.
r1sts. Cigareties e,!icial!v
classified in Britain is ;eut r " deliver muc@ i;iLhier '
doses of i3r and nice:.ne -.,6en
smoked in -,he Iturran -and :@an
thev do when srno@cz_ tin ,illac,111ine in On laborz-.:ry 0: the
government chemist.
The low-ior ciK::ri:-_.t -Save
a 1cric, 01 smail
ha les allad the "-!r :3 ;C!
in air and dilute :'n :11
ke. But when a s maker e
hol d s fe ngers or lips over trie
he es, the air is cu: :ff and
the cigarette delive:s snake.
with &it increase in ntcaunal
.Z..' up to 20 times Anz -.-I tar
to) :carbon monoxide c" up to
d
40 I lines.
Tar gives the circle it
taste and provides -;;,c: ni th:
risk - AMC-la the 2473 chemi-
.% -c '
Cal in tar Some 40 a. gno,n
to cause cancer. Car-in mon.
oxide, which displaces oxy-jeen
from the blood. a:;!3vajes
bronchitis -and hear:
and may be the ca--,c of
.father$ who $Mt-.e h.3v-.njC
sma 11 babit
S. cot;.-. ;s -,ire.
Iva I 3 , :,3 r.
bably the Addict
Almo%t all the law-!n cigxr-
8
11ttet sold in ritain. 3ni some
of the6c2r.
gifts, hav vennlwc_@ ft-.c s-
In Britain about tw,)-3ne-a-noll,
million -ease %make
cifirettes. And as m3nv a%
40 r,:r cent Pf them Tnav elect;
the Holes with lirs (,:. 'fitners.
cook, according IC, eXP(!rInI-.n!5 Con-
ducted by Lvnti T. X::!nwtki
,in II at ?v " iit the Adiction
Rescarch roundat:.-.11 in
Toronto. Canada.
The Toronto scien:;!ts care*
to heir conclusions watch.
ing '"Oken 'Ind hv ex3-njnj-7C
the butt-ends of ti@a ct:3-eltej
thev smoked. When a C;,-3rCtte
hills ventilated filtc, @s :noked
without binckint: the mass. tile
yell-)w tar stain tr. -@c . end
of the cigarette is in th;'cerfre
with a white un,itaine- border
(see drnwinzl. When :'it hnies
are blocked hv 'are. 9::t yellow
stain sprctels rieht :.r.,it -he
end. Partial bInckine -.-oduccs
an interTnedii-if stain.
Whether or not birc
the holes. smoker%
1. :.
cigarems =ierillv n? , or
and more frequent -try
to got the same s2::s1.::!on as
in the Brqi!n Journal a-
at
Arldlictitin orde.
tnese 'human:-cd " conc tons
Jc@n riaver @inc sre"Inr3
mild produced 35 LiMC9 MO.2
tar than theV ',7FDdUCtd When
stnokcd under normal machme
C tondlitions. E-r.:3$SY Uitr3 nlljd
k..Iq sire it;::- produced :5
tm-es rrorc tar undcr these
ons. arc Sil Cut %;ir:3
nl:idith sut's:aute kin-sne
fl;:Crproducer 19 times more
:or.
Tileoicaret-e corilrarieq Are
cr,ticial oi ire Toronto rindints.
Imperial Tn-nco savs tr e
drannatic i crea!cs in tar pr3.
'le
duced when , . " ltr3-nnie
b@ands hall. the holes blocked
tio not occur w, - n more popular
c--rarctics in :"-@ middie Of tile
low-car rastre. They ran -hc:r
own tests last week for The
S@nday, Times and found t1ha,-_
WA013 holes &.a blorked on
Vanguard cicacttes. tar in-
Cre1SCS by Cn!Y 20 Per Cent !1111.
with Embassy %a I ciftra-mild.
tar increaser . per cent and
so. takes it i:-:o the low-to.
-niddle-tar c2tt.-ory. But these
less did Dart f-;Iiy match the
slide tit the la-ar smoker who
takes lareer 3ne -nore ire
qu!rt.
ryu:!s. If the hid. mi.
forencts would have been
greater.
Further doubts about the
va'u- ',a iow-tar
c:,-2rettes come fram Vie work
mi Ur Mich-C, Ru.cel, of -he
;"VC1 Inrn Lon.
Insn-tite of V. N
don. who has fluid tn3. peop;,
wim reculariy smoke lo%v.ta-
cj@2rettos 1%ave aF muen nice.
fine in the K-ad as people
%ago smake hitner-ijr bra-ids
;,- showing that thw intake
make and -ar inust be
si-iflar. Perinit asked to switch
e%permicritally :-I low-tar cion.
raises do have ',ess nicotine in
ti-ir blood but tisev seem to
r73d1I&IlV ICZ-1 10' Pot morit
fiern the ;*--,'a!- cicarettat.
Pitiably hV Cft%L erint: holes. So
tacir nic@tine level goes
over a period oi three month.!
-1
Ane czcarc::e company.,
C;-lil-lh*r, I'W-eNcr. s2vs that 1:
.4it iust cort,,-i,.--:d a 'surver Of
400 sr%"-ers w@;:h shows t'ha:
il Pay,& to iw;::h to low-car
cigarettes it concedes
- -t th
!le . If advl,:z :es art not so
great -is the r@-vernmcni. %or
labits suggests.
NOLIS IV Mnj
Holes blacked
ifuring &ME-Ng
fit
How a low-tar cigarette can becoine high-t:ir
Times 25.7.82
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BATCo document for Province of British Columbia 19 April 1999