Dr. Michael Fiore: In reality, ‘light’ cigarettes may be more dangerous

Dr. Michael Fiore

An article about the health hazards of filtered cigarettes quoted Michael Fiore, MD, MPH, MBA, professor, General Internal Medicine and director of the UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention. 

Researchers suggest that a shift to so-called “light” cigarettes may have caused the most common form of lung cancer in men to change from squamous cell lung cancers to adenocarcinomas from the 1950s to today. 

This could be due to both the slower burn rate of filtered cigarettes, which causes toxic compounds to accumulate, and changes in smoking behavior such as deeper inhalation. 

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