Reducing the nicotine content of cigarettes immediately is a better approach to tobacco harm reduction than reducing nicotine gradually, according to a new study by Dorothy Hatsukami, co-director of the Center for the Evaluation of Nicotine in Cigarettes and director of the tobacco research programs at the University of Minnesota. Hatsukami presented the findings of her study, which is still under peer review, at the Vermont Center on Behavior and Health's fifth annual conference on tobacco regulatory science in Burlington, Vermont, USA, Oct.5-6. The study took place over 20 weeks and included 1,250 participants. Smokers were split into three groups. The first group received very low-nicotine cigarettes immediately, the second was gradually exposed to low-nicotine cigarettes, and the third group smoked normal nicotine-content cigarettes.
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