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A black mark againt black market cigarettes over health  

Jump to full article: Melbourne (Vic) Herald Sun (au), 2008-07-07

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ADDICTS of black-market tobacco are more likely to have bad lungs and other ills than other smokers, a study says.

"Chop-chop" smokers widely believe it's healthier because it lacks chemicals in licit cigarettes.

"We now have a fairly good indication that that's really not the case," says Dr Campbell Aitken, from the Burnet Institute in Melbourne.

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