Experts have long known that cigarettes with low tar, so-called "light" cigarettes, not a bit healthier than conventional tobacco products. A new study shows even more: the transition to lighter cigarettes does not smoking much less likely.
In the new study, whose results were published on 3 November in the online version of the journal Tobacco Control, the experts examined data from a survey in 2003 conducted among 30,800 smokers for at least a year, residents of the United States. 38% of them switched from conventional cigarettes to the lungs. The majority (26%) referred reported what they had done so for the best taste of light cigarettes. 43% mentioned two or more causes of the transition, in particular, was mentioned and a desire to quit smoking. Nevertheless, people who switched to lighter cigarettes, likely to give up the habit was 46% less than those who continued to smoke regular cigarettes.
Why do people who go on light cigarettes are less likely to quit smoking? The researchers suggest that switching to lighter cigarettes can resolve cognitive dissonance smoker. He thinks: "Well, since I smoke less harmful cigarettes, I do not have to worry about lung cancer, heart disease, impotence, wrinkles, premature death (underline). This rationalization makes conscious smokers continue to smoke. But there is another possible explanation. It is likely that people are switching to light cigarettes, much more dependent on smoking. Regardless of how cigarettes are called, they are all equally dangerous to health, reminiscent of the study's authors.
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