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Does anyone else remember when marlboro released cigarettes with less nicotine in them and marketed it as a healthier choice?

• SilasX 8y ago
  Wait, they said the lower nicotine made it safer? I'd always heard it as being the lower tar that was supposed to be healthier?
  • wnevets 8y ago
    Yup, a quick google turn this up. I remember being confused as a child when adults would tell me theses were healthier. They would always just smoke more. https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/18/business/new-philip-morris-cigarette-emphasizes-less-nicotine.html https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/18/business/new-philip-morri...
  • oh_sigh 8y ago
    I guess the idea is not that nicotine is inherently unsafe, but lower nicotine levels will lead to lower addiction levels, leading to fewer cigarettes smoked?