Hygiena 2022, 67(3):114-115 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1815

Very low nicotine cigarettes: will they really lower the risk?

Eva Králíková1, 2
1 Univerzita Karlova, 1. lékařská fakulta, III. interní klinika, Centrum pro závislé na tabáku a Všeobecná fakultní nemocnice v Praze, Praha, Česká republika
2 Univerzita Karlova, 1. lékařská fakulta, Ústav hygieny a epidemiologie a Všeobecná fakultní nemocnice v Praze, Praha, Česká republika

When smoking cigarettes, smoke and combustion products are especially harmful to health. Surprisingly, towards the end of 2021, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved very low nicotine filtered cigarettes as a Modified Risk Tobacco Product. Will the risk of developing and maintaining addiction or health risk be reduced?

Keywords: cigarettes, nicotine - content, health risks, addiction

Received: June 2022; Accepted: August 2, 2022; Published: September 15, 2022  Show citation

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Králíková E. Very low nicotine cigarettes: will they really lower the risk? Hygiena. 2022;67(3):114-115. doi: 10.21101/hygiena.a1815.
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