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Cigarette Design
Cigarette Design (Health Education · Myths about Smoking and Cigarettes) — "Filters make cigarettes safer. Filters do not protect you. They are designed to mak…
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- No cigarette is safe, and filters do not protect smokers.
- Filters do not make cigarettes safer.
- Filters are designed to make smoke particles smaller.
- Smaller particles make nicotine easier to absorb.
- Cigarettes are engineered to speed nicotine’s path to the brain and feed addiction.
- Light or low-tar cigarettes may sound less dangerous, but they are not.
- Misleading light or low-tar labels are no longer allowed.
- Tobacco smoke contains more than 7,000 chemicals.
- At least 250 chemicals in tobacco smoke are toxic.
