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"Light" cigarettes are still dangerous

They’re just as harmful as regular cigarettes:

“Smoking low-tar, low-nicotine cigarettes impairs the coronary flow velocity reserve as severely as smoking regular cigarettes,” they reported online in Heart, a BMJ specialty journal. “Coronary flow velocity reserve values are similar in light cigarette and regular cigarette smokers and significantly lower than in controls.”

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