Smoking: Health Effects and Control

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  • JFJonathan E. Fielding
    Jonathan E. Fielding
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Abstract
The Changing CigaretteBetween 1954 and 1983 the introduction of filters and low-tar cigarettes in response to consumer demand led to a decline in the average tar content of a cigarette in the United States of more than two thirds — from 38 mg to below 12 mg per cigarette — and the average nicotine content decreased from 2.3 mg to slightly below 1.2 mg.88 89 90 Since their introduction to the U.S. cigarette market in the late 1960s and the early 1970s, low-tar-and-nicotine cigarettes (defined as having less than 15 mg of tar per cigarette) have rapidly increased their market share . . .

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