‘Light’ and ‘Mild’ Cigarettes: Who Smokes Them? Are They Being Misled?
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'Light' and 'mild' cigarettes: who smokes them? Are they being misled?
Using two population-based surveys of Ontarians, we examined the proportions of smokers who smoke 'light' and 'mild' cigarettes (L/M). We compared L/M smokers to regular cigarette smokers regarding demographic, health knowledge, and smoking characteristics and examined their health-related perceptions of L/M and reasons for smoking them. Use of these cigarettes increased from 71% in 1996 to 83%...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Public Health
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0008-4263,1920-7476
DOI: 10.1007/bf03404529