A Comparative Study of the Amount of Smoke Absorbed From Low Yield (‘Less Hazardous’) Cigarettes Part 2: Invasive Measures
作者:
J. C. Robinson,
J. C. Young,
W. S. Rickert,
G. Fey,
L. T. Kozlowski,
期刊:
British Journal of Addiction
(WILEY Available online 1983)
卷期:
Volume 78,
issue 1
页码: 79-87
ISSN:0952-0481
年代: 1983
DOI:10.1111/j.1360-0443.1983.tb02483.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
SummaryA group of 22 volunteers who smoked daily more than 20‘high’nicotine (0.8 to 1.1 mg) Canadian cigarettes were switched to lower yield brands in two stages aver an eight‐week period. The control group (six subjects) switched brands with nicotine yields within ± 0.1 mg of their usual brand while the treatment group smoked reduced yield brands (first stage, 33% reduction; second stage 61% reduction).all averages for levels of blood carboxyhemoglobin, plasma thiocyanate and serum cotinine were found to change significantly from week to week but there was no discernible difference between the treatment and the control group in week to week pattern. Although the majority of smokers in this study did not increase their exposure to cigarette smoke by smoking low yield cigarettes, it can not be said that the switch resulted in ‘safer
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