Low-nicotine cigarettes cut use, dependence, study finds

Melrose also referred to an independent review published by the Public Health England in August, which concludes that “current best estimate is that e-cigarettes are around 95 percent less harmful than smoking” and have the potential to help smokers quit smoking. Five smoked study-provided cigarettes that ranged in nicotine strength from extremely low (0.4 mg per gram of tobacco) to levels typical of cigarettes sold in the USA (15.8 mg per gram).

Only two – one referencing e-cigarettes and another “advantage cleaner nicotine products over combustibles” – make any reference to tobacco-industry participation in pursuit of tobacco-control objectives.

The first study shows that despite its claims to have changed, the tobacco industry continues to lure kids into nicotine addiction with a wide assortment of sweet-flavored products.

“Flavored tobacco products are enticing a new generation of America’s youth into nicotine addiction, condemning many of them to tobacco-related disease and early death”, Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in a CDC news release.

The final limitation, and possibly the biggest, is that reduced nicotine cigarettes may not help people quit, just cut down how much they smoke.

Washington D.C., October 1 (ANI): A new study has revealed that reduced-nicotine cigarettes decrease the dependence and frequency of smoking. Lower levels of nicotine intake were reflected in urine tests.

“Therefore, we cannot determine from this study if very low nicotine cigarettes are “safer” than cigarettes now on the market today”. “In other words, the data reported in this study do not support the suggestion that preventing use of e-cigarettes by minors would in any way influence the number of teens experimenting with nicotine delivery products”. By 1995, however, an internal memo from the USA tobacco giant Philip Morris came to light in which employees called cigarettes “nicotine delivery systems” and acknowledged that nicotine was the “primary reason” smokers kept coming back. People in the sample did not represent all types of smokers, either, which is something future studies may address.

The sixth group continued to smoke their own brand of cigarettes. However, there are wide disparities among the various Asian nationalities and Native Americans have California’s highest levels of smoking. Maybe people with a few disorders could have trouble with quitting. Donny is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology within the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. “And in the case of e-cigarettes and hookahs, they’re available in a lot of kid-friendly flavors such as candy, fruit and chocolate”.

He said the NEJM study appears to be well done, featuring the top investigators in the field.

Additionally the lower-nicotine smokers reported less dependence and cravings.

But when the nicotine levels dropped to 2.4 mg or lower, the number of cigarettes smoked showed a modest decline. Carcinogen exposure fell by about 15 percent with the two lowest-nicotine cigarettes.

Anti-smoking activists were enthusiastic about the results.

“Whether you can leap from this to a new policy is kind of problematic”, he said. “They think it’s OK to do it”, she said.

In another troubling finding, the study reports that a large majority of youth e-cigarette users also used other tobacco products. It will require collaborating with all who are willing and able to work with the public-health community to pursue shared public-health objectives.

In this study, which lasted one year and included 840 participants spread over 10 sites, Donny and collaborators found that nicotine content is a significant determinant of cigarette use and dependence.

A store in Minneapolis advertises its selection of e-cigarettes.