Price Hike Pushes Smokers Switch to High-nicotine Content Cigarettes

October 24, 2007 at 1:20 PM General Health News
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Non-menthol prices increased slightly more than 50 percent during that same time period, leading to an estimated 1 percent increase in tar per cigarette, but no increase in nicotine.

The study was funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Substance Abuse Policy Research Program.

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