Low Tar Cigarettes
Many people switch to low tar and low nicotine cigarettes, thinking that they will do less harm. This is the wrong tactic. The point is that, if you do this, you are still smoking because the body - or the brain - is still demanding its daily dose of nicotine. You are still giving in to that demand.
The end result will be that you will probably start taking stronger pulls on these cigarettes, or you may increase the number of cigarettes that you smoke, or you may take more puffs per cigarette. Nicotine is a venomously addictive substance, and once you get used to it, the only way out is to stop once and for all.
The message here is loud and clear: smoking any kind of cigarette is bad, so don't even consider other possibilities.
All Cigarettes Are Bad
Some people think that the number of cigarettes smoked determines the harm that is caused. Smoking any number of cigarettes is harmful. Of course, the harm is increased when the number of cigarettes is increased, but that does not mean that a person who smokes only one or two cigarettes a day is free from danger.
Similarly, all kinds of cigarettes are harmful to health - whether filtered or not; whether they contain menthol or not. All of them are terribly harmful to your lungs, and to every other part of your body that the toxic smoke affects.
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