Guest guest Posted March 27, 2011 Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 People who smoke menthol cigarettes are no more likely to develop lung cancer than those who smoke non-menthol varieties, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday in a surprise finding that could affect U.S. regulators' efforts to ban menthol-flavored cigarettes. Scientists had assumed that adding menthol to cigarettes would expose people to more toxins and increase their cancer risk, but a large study of older adults in community health centers found the opposite. The key finding was that the risk of lung cancer was no higher in menthol smokers. " In fact, it was a bit lower in mentholated compared to non-mentholated smokers and there was no significant difference in the rate of quitting smoking, " said Blot of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, Tennessee, whose study appears in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. FYI, Lottie Duthu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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