Jump to full article: South China Morning Post, 2008-04-15
Intro: Cigarettes containing low levels of tar and nicotine were still harmful a spokesman for the Department of Health (DH) said on Tuesday.
The spokesman was citing the 2007 findings of the government laboratory on the tar and nicotine yields of 77 brands of cigarettes in Hong Kong.
“They best way to protect one’s health was to quit smoking,” the spokesman said.
He noted that the average tar and nicotine yields were 9.4 milligrams and 0.69 mg per cigarette respectively, representing a rise of 0.5 mg for tar and a drop of 0.08 mg for nicotine respectively compared with the findings of 2006.
He stressed that even cigarettes in the low-tar group were harmful to smokers’ health.
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