Rolling Your Cigs Just as Bad as Buying

If you’re rolling your own cigarettes in an effort to reduce the harmful effects of smoking, you’re not making any difference, say researchers in the United Kingdom.

Rolling your own cigarettes is something that gives you a bit of control, you may think, and it may save money as the end result can be less expensive while limiting the amount of extra stuff added by the cigarette companies. But the researchers discovered that although the rolled cigarettes may be cheaper, they aren’t any safer.

According to this article, Roll-your-own Cigarettes As Deadly As Ready Mades ,

There were no differences in the concentrations of the toxins between manufactured and RYO [roll your own] cigarette smokers even when age, sex, body mass index, puffing behaviour and nicotine exposure were taken into account.

Another important finding is that women tended to have higher levels of toxins in their body, regardless of if they smoked store-bought cigarettes or they rolled their own.

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