It will likely cause a controversy if it is ever approved by the necessary regulatory bodies but researchers at Cornell think their innovative, less toxic cigarette invention will be a resounding success on the market and a great benefit to those who cannot or find it tough to quit the habit of smoking. The research claiming that the composition of their cigarettes reduces the number of carcinogenic free radicals coming through the filter is published in the Journal of Visualised Experiments.
These carcinogenic free radicals have a huge impact on a smoker’s risk of cancer. The filters are thus composed of natural antioxidants, lycopene and grape seed extract, which the research shows to dramatically reduce the number of free radicals travelling through the cigarette filter.
For the New Year quitters who have already succumbed to their cravings, this is likely to be welcome news. However, over the month of January year in year out there are a multitude of support programmes and advice is plentiful. We recommend that patients make the effort to stop smoking and to consider approaches such as cessation drugs, nicotine patches or counselling. This less toxic cigarette might be a long time coming and will certainly never be ‘good’ for your health.