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Article: Duty-free cigarettes 'have higher tar levels'
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 10, 1995
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CELIA HALL
Medical Editor
Thousands of unsuspecting British holiday makers and travellers
returning from Europe are buying duty-free cigarettes unaware that
the tar and nicotine counts are higher than packs bought in the UK.
While they believe they are buying cigarettes identical to their
regular brand, tar content, the main cancer causing agent in
cigarettes, can be 3mg higher on the duty-free cigarettes.
Benson & Hedges Special Filter cigarettes in the gold pack have
12 mg of tar if bought in the UK but 15mg when bought, for
instance, on a tourist flight from Spain. The nicotine counts were