Article: Duty-free cigarettes 'have higher tar levels'

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

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