cigarettes
2007-09-15
Today, I reveal an additional way in which severe reductions in the nicotine content of cigarettes could harm smokers: by increasing the cardiovascular health risks of smoking due to a reduction in the platelet activation modifying activity of nicotine. The new research, presented yesterday at the Sixth Scientific Symposium of the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute (FAMRI), studied the effect of nicotine-free cheap cigarettes on cardiovascular disease risk in smokers, as measured by levels of platelet activity in the blood (higher levels of platelet activity indicate a more thrombotic state – a state more conducive to clot formation and therefore to the development of cardiovascular disease) (Girdhar G, Xu S, Jesty J, Bluestein D. Abstract – Nicotine reduction and elimination in cigarettes – its effect on cardiovascular risk in smokers, and in non-smokers exposed to secondhand smoke).[ Back to top ]
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