Marlboro Cigarettes American companies have a higher content of a chemical that causes cancer than cigarettes produced abroad. As reported by news agency Associated Press, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, conducted a comparative analysis of carcinogen nitrosamina in Marlboro cigarettes and 13 brands of cigarettes manufactured in other countries. Researchers chose to test this particular brand of American cigarettes, because it is the most popular in the world.
According to the study, the content nitrosamina foreign cigarettes significantly lower than in Marlboro. In nikotoryh cases – more than 50%. Experts say the center is due to the peculiarities of the processing of American Tobacco. This suggests that manufacturers can reduce nitrosamina in cigarettes. Representatives of Philip Morris USA, which owns brand Marlboro, said that they had cooperated with the producers of tobacco in this direction. But researchers warn that nitrosamin – not the only carcinogen contained in tobacco smoke, and reducing its content does not protect smokers permanently.
According to the research center in the United States from diseases caused by smoking, kills 400 thousand people.