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A team of American scientists has
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again that there is no safe cigarette. The scientists said that even cigarettes with low
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of tar and nicotine are harmful. And they said that the only sure way to
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the danger of cancer and heart disease is to stop smoking completely. The new report was made by a committee
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the national research council.
The health dangers of tar and nicotine have been well reported and reports appear to
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helped change American smoking customs. Fifteen years ago only about two percent of the cigarettes sold in the United States were low
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tar and nicotine. Today more
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forty percent are low tar and nicotine cigarettes. The new report noted that studies have been made from the years 1955 to 1975.
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that period the average amount of tar and nicotine in cigarette was reduced by about one half.
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during the same time lung cancer and other cancers of the breathing system increased
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seventy percent.
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fact, male smokers
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thirty-five or older were more
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to die
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lung cancer in 1975
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smokers of the same age twenty years early.