'Safe cigarette' claimed to cut cancer by 90%

[Ernesto]

BRITISH American Tobacco (BAT) is to launch a controversial “safer cigarette” designed to cut the risk of smoking-related diseases such as cancer and heart failure by up to 90%.
The cigarettes use tobacco treated to produce lower levels of cancer-causing chemicals. They also incorporate a new type of filter said to remove more of the remaining toxins.
Campaigners will dismiss any attempt to reinvent cigarettes as a less harmful product as a cynical ploy to recruit more smokers when the habit is already killing 114,000 Britons a year and the government is proposing curbs on smoking in public places.
John Britton, professor of epidemiology at Nottingham University, said: “Anything involving inhaling smoke is unsafe. These new cigarettes could be more like jumping from the 15th floor instead of the 20th: theoretically the risk is less but you still die.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1859508,00.html

[Vincardog]

1. The only 'Safe cigarette' is clean clear AIR

[Itchinjim]

2. Emphysema.

n/t

[occuserpens]

3. What about addiction-safe vodka?

[SOS]

6. Only products used

by the working class are dangerous.
Alcohol is perfectly harmless and never causes any problems.

[1932]

4. I make one too: it's 1/4 inch long and 99% paper. Want to buy some?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. straight tobacco

doesn't have all the chemicals in it, and smells different and is different on the lungs of smokers. My husband has been smoking this kind for years and has clear lungs-he had a lung x-ray so I know.