Health cigarettes more harmful

Albuquerque News.Net
Tuesday 9th December, 2008

A new study has found harm-reduction cigarettes can be even more toxic than traditional cigarettes.

Researchers from University of California - Riverside have found that smoke from the 'low-yield' harm-reduction cigarettes retains toxicity.

A lead researcher has claimed that many chemicals found in harm-reduction cigarette smoke have not been tested.

Some, which are listed by manufacturers as safe, have been found in laboratory tests to be particularly harmful to pregnant women.

Results from the research showed that both kinds of smoke from traditional and harm-reduction cigarettes were toxic to pre-implantation embryos and could retard growth or kill embryonic cells at the stage of development.

Moreover, mainstream smoke and sidestream smoke from harm-reduction cigarettes were found to be more potent than the corresponding smoke from traditional brands of cigarettes.

The study appears in the journal Human Reproduction.

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