New Delhi: The study led by Dr Constantine Vardavas, senior research scientist at Harvard School of Public Health compared urine tests of 3,699 smokers who smoked regular, king-sized and long cigarettes. The data was collected from National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES). According to a new study, smoking ultra-long or long cigarettes can put you at greater risk of lung and oral cancer.
It was observed that 53 percent of total smokers smoked king-sized cigarettes, 31.5 percent smoked long or ultra long cigarettes and 15.4 percent smoked regular-sized cigarettes. The urine tests revealed that the smokers of ultra long cigarettes had significantly higher levels of NNAL-an indicator of tobacco-specific carcinogen. The research also revealed that older smokers, non-Hispanic blacks and females had a greater tendency to smoke long cigarettes. Dr Constantine Vardavas said, we found that of smokers of long or ultra long cigarettes have higher concentrations of tobacco specific carcinogens in their urine than smokers of regular or king size cigarettes
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