[The tobacco companies are being sued for claiming cigarettes lower in tar are less harmful. So, which is it? As for the last sentence, the antis' will use that as an argument to increase taxes on RYO, not decrease the taxes on manufactured cigarettes.]



"Hand-rolled cigarettes more carcinogenic - study"

By Jack Kim

"SEOUL (Reuters) - Smokers of hand-rolled cigarettes tend to consume less tobacco, but face a greater risk of developing lung cancer than those who smoke manufactured cigarettes, a study on Norwegian lung cancer patients has found.

Norway is one of the last Western countries that still use a significant amount of hand-rolled tobacco, amounting to one-third of tobacco sales, according to the study released on Wednesday.

While smokers of hand-rolled cigarettes "consumed (fewer) cigarettes, and statistically had fewer years of smoking, hand-rolled cigarettes were more carcinogenic, resulting in a higher incidence of lung cancer development", the study by Heidi Rolke, of Norway's Sorlandet Hospital, said.

The paper was presented at the World Conference on Lung Cancer in Seoul.

Lung cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world, with more than 570,000 people in Asia dying from it each year, or 1 every minute. Globally, it kills 1.3 million people each year.

More than 80 percent of patients who had lung cancer in the study of 333 people primarily smoked hand-rolled cigarettes. Hand-rolled cigarettes tended to be loosely packed with tobacco, but had significantly higher nicotine and tar content because they were rolled without filters, Rolke said on a telephone briefing.

Jonathan Samet of Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health said similar findings had been documented in the higher rate of cancer among Hispanic women in the southwestern United States who tended to hand roll cigarettes.

"There is, perhaps, an indication that we should be concerned if rising prices for manufactured cigarettes would lead to substitutions," Samet said."

REUTERS

Jonathan Samet of Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health said similar findings had been documented in the higher rate of cancer among Hispanic women in the southwestern United States who tended to hand roll cigarettes.
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So why haven't I heard Samet et al. promoting filter cigarettes?

333 people in the study...

Is this a representative sample? Of what overall population? 80% is 266.4 people. Again I ask...of what overall population?

Who is funding these stupid studies?

Just wondering

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Originally posted by smallbird:
Who is funding these stupid studies?

Just wondering

I hope for anti-tobacco's sake, Big Tobacco paid for it because what this study says is:

Anti-smoking measures (taxes) may have been killing smokers and putting millions more at risk.

Like I said before, if these people are sincere in why they do all these studies they'll start a campaign to get people to smoke only filtered cigarettes.

There is NO mention of where the participants of the study were located or how they were selected or what other factors in their family history or their region were.

I thought tubes including filters were available?

I can only assume that the women were making their smokes much the same way pot heads made them in the 60's or cowboys did before the invention of machinery to produce them.

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Originally posted by Bruce Fox:
I thought tubes including filters were available?

They are.

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I can only assume that the women were making their smokes much the same way pot heads made them in the 60's or cowboys did before the invention of machinery to produce them.

Could be, but you can make filterless cigarettes from a machine too.

What all this means is: The RYO'ers have finally gotten to the point where they are in such large numbers they are now DETECTED BY GOVERNMENT RADAR. That's why the fear is being spread here (buy them pre-made cigs and be safer, so we can rape you for the taxes), and also why bulk tobacco is included in the SCHIP deal, which is still looming over our heads.

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What all this means is: The RYO'ers have finally gotten to the point where they are in such large numbers they are now DETECTED BY GOVERNMENT RADAR.

BINGO.