Here's the newest from Philip Morris to help harried smokers:
Smoking bans around the world have relegated the world's smokers to seek refuge in their cigarettes outside, often times in the cold or rain. For those who'd still like to get in their nicotine fix, without having to spend as much time outside, Philip Morris is launching a new "snack size" mini cigarette - Marlboro Intense.
The mini cigarette allows smokers to smoke their cigarette much more quickly than regular sized ones, but it still delivers the same amount of nicotine as the full-size version.
The new Marlboro Intense cigarettes are only 7.2cm long, which is shorter than the standard 8.5cm cigarette. It will be first tested in Turkey, but with more than 50 countries around the world now enforcing smoking bans, Philip Morris believes that they may be on to something. So it may not be long before we see these snack-sized cigarettes in the States.
How likely are those who buy the Marlboro Intense mini-cigarettes to simply just start smoking more of them because of the psychology of their small size?
The article was from a press release in a Cleveland newspaper. I noted this response and I believe this is the guy SJ quoted on dangers of nicotine alone.
As a slowly but ever increasing percentage of nicotine smokers transfer their dependency to vastly cleaner nicotine delivery devices (GSK consultants have reported that 37% of nicotine gum users are chronic long-term users of at least 6 months), and as new less destructive devices enter the market, I predict we'll see increasing discussion given to actually banning the world's dirtiest drug delivery device, the cigarette.
The problem is that once you've done "smoke" it's hard to accept slower, less precise delivery. Within 8-10 seconds of a puff, we nicotine addicts could tell whether or not we needed to take another puff or had smoked too much. It isn't easy adjusting as you wait what seems like minutes for oral nicotine to penetrate the lining of the mouth, enter the bloodstream and do their magic inside the brain's dopamine reward pathways.
Marlboro Intense highlights growing concerns regarding smokers having less time to smoke and thus smoking each cigarette far more intensely than ever. What are the long-term health consequences of smoking harder, faster, deeper and holding the smoke longer than normal? It may be decades before we develop a full understanding but it doesn't take millions in research to allow us to predict that the findings won't be pretty.
John R. Polito
Editor WhyQuit
Smoking bans around the world have relegated the world's smokers to seek refuge in their cigarettes outside, often times in the cold or rain. For those who'd still like to get in their nicotine fix, without having to spend as much time outside, Philip Morris is launching a new "snack size" mini cigarette - Marlboro Intense.
The mini cigarette allows smokers to smoke their cigarette much more quickly than regular sized ones, but it still delivers the same amount of nicotine as the full-size version.
The new Marlboro Intense cigarettes are only 7.2cm long, which is shorter than the standard 8.5cm cigarette. It will be first tested in Turkey, but with more than 50 countries around the world now enforcing smoking bans, Philip Morris believes that they may be on to something. So it may not be long before we see these snack-sized cigarettes in the States.
How likely are those who buy the Marlboro Intense mini-cigarettes to simply just start smoking more of them because of the psychology of their small size?
The article was from a press release in a Cleveland newspaper. I noted this response and I believe this is the guy SJ quoted on dangers of nicotine alone.
As a slowly but ever increasing percentage of nicotine smokers transfer their dependency to vastly cleaner nicotine delivery devices (GSK consultants have reported that 37% of nicotine gum users are chronic long-term users of at least 6 months), and as new less destructive devices enter the market, I predict we'll see increasing discussion given to actually banning the world's dirtiest drug delivery device, the cigarette.
The problem is that once you've done "smoke" it's hard to accept slower, less precise delivery. Within 8-10 seconds of a puff, we nicotine addicts could tell whether or not we needed to take another puff or had smoked too much. It isn't easy adjusting as you wait what seems like minutes for oral nicotine to penetrate the lining of the mouth, enter the bloodstream and do their magic inside the brain's dopamine reward pathways.
Marlboro Intense highlights growing concerns regarding smokers having less time to smoke and thus smoking each cigarette far more intensely than ever. What are the long-term health consequences of smoking harder, faster, deeper and holding the smoke longer than normal? It may be decades before we develop a full understanding but it doesn't take millions in research to allow us to predict that the findings won't be pretty.
John R. Polito
Editor WhyQuit
