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Intro: Recent research revealed a link between cigarette addiction and the brands. The study shows that the additives in the cigarettes make some brands almost 40 times more addictive than other cigarettes. This is based on the type of nicotine which is highly addictive called 'freebase' nicotine.
It is for the first time that scientists measured the amount of the freebase nicotine that cigarettes deliver to smokers.
A team of researchers from Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, USA compared eleven brands of cigarettes and they found that some contained 10 to 20 times higher levels of freebase nicotine than experts had previously believed.
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