Light Cigarettes

                Many people believe that smoking light cigarettes is an effective way to quit smoking or improve their health, well they are wrong. Light cigarettes target women in the market, with the promise that they are lighter, safer, and healthier because the cigarette is taken for granted; it is not highly looked upon as the counterpart of regular cigarettes. These cigarettes contain cellulose acetate filters, highly porous cigarette paper, ventilation holes in the filter tip, and different blends of tobacco. Recently, a new law called the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which granted authority to the FDA to regulate tobacco product makes it so that tobacco companies can’t use terms such as light, low, mild in their products.  Even though there are no terms to show consumers that there are lighter cigarettes companies made, their products color are coded so consumers know which are “light”.

 Light cigarettes may contain lower doses of nicotine, menthol and tar but overall it depends on how the smoker uses the product. In the cases of the use of lighter cigarettes smokers tend to inhale more when smoking a light cigarette which can lead to equivalent damage from regular cigarettes. This means that light cigarettes causes the same health affects as regular cigarettes does, like cancer. The bottom line is that light cigarettes do not help people stop smoking or reduce the health effects of smoking. There is no such thing as a safe cigarette and the only way to be healthy is to stop smoking.

"National Cancer Institute." "Light" Cigarettes and Cancer Risk -. Web. 22 Apr. 2012. <http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Tobacco/light-cigarettes>.