Current study Light cigarettes lead to an even higher risk of lung cancer

Why are light cigarettes so harmful to the lungs??
Surely we all know that smoking cigarettes harms your health. Many people want to quit smoking or just smoke less. This may be one of the reasons that sufferers start smoking so-called light cigarettes. Researchers now found that consuming light cigarettes increases the risk of lung cancer.

Ohio State University scientists found in their study that so-called light cigarettes can be more dangerous to the human lung than ordinary cigarettes. For this reason, U.S. Pat. Food and Drug Administration to ban possibly light cigarettes completely. In Germany, cigarettes today are no longer allowed to be advertised as "light". The physicians published the results of their study in the journal "Journal of the National Cancer Institute".

Many people like to smoke cigarettes. Of course, cigarettes are very harmful to human health and can even lead to death. Smoking so-called light cigarettes increases the risk of consumers suffering from lung cancer. (Image: photo 5000 / fotolia.com)

Experts are studying the effects of smoking
The research team consisted of specialists in lung cancer, public health and tobacco regulation. For their study, these experts analyzed existing literature on chemistry and toxicology studies, which looked at both human clinical trials and epidemiological studies for their effects on smokers and non-smokers.

Cigarettes today have more air holes in their filter
Cigarettes produced today are far more dangerous than they were 40 years ago. Cigarette manufacturers are now inserting more holes in the cigarette filters, explains author Dr. Peter Shields. These ventilation holes in the cigarettes mix the air with the smoke.

What are the air holes in cigarettes??
The air holes in the cigarettes soften the smoke. The smoke is less hard and therefore many smokers consider it harmless, explain the doctors. The extra air makes the cigarettes burn better and encourages smokers to bigger trains. Many people think that they do not smoke harmful cigarettes when they consume light cigarettes, the authors add.

Modified cigarettes lead to more cases of lung cancer
The change in cigarette designs led to an increase in the most common type of lung cancer, called adenocarcinoma, as early as 2014, the Surgeon General's Report on smoking and health. U.S. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has therefore proposed a ban on light cigarettes. The FDA has the ability to control and change the design of cigarettes if it can improve public health.

Smokers should now switch from light cigarettes to regular cigarettes?
Normal cigarettes have the least amount of air holes. Light cigarettes already have more holes and so-called ultra-light cigarettes have the most air holes in their filter, explain the doctors. However, this does not mean that smokers should now switch from Ultra-Light to normal cigarettes, say the authors.

It is best to stop smoking completely
Cigarettes are a deadly threat to our health. The benefit to smokers of converting to the type of cigarette would simply be too low compared to cessation of cigarettes consumption, say the scientists. (As)