Jump to full article: The Age (au), 2009-07-05
Intro: A New Zealand study has shown that factory-rolled cigarettes may be the lesser of two evils.
The Christchurch-based study compared people smoking factory-rolled cigarettes to those smoking roll-your-owns and found that smokers tended to suck rollies more intensively, more often and more efficiently, making them at least as deadly as factory-rolled cigarettes.
The study, led by public health specialist Dr Murray Laugesen, is the first to use people rather than smoking machines to compare the two types of cigarettes.
It compared 26 men who smoked rollies with 22 who smoked factory-rolled. Each smoked a filtered cigarette every half hour over two hours, according to usual habit.
Cravings and exhaled carbon monoxide were measured before and after each cigarette smoked.
It found that participants smoking rollies took 25 per cent more puffs per cigarette and generally puffed for six seconds longer per cigarette.
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