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New cigarette designs don't offer lower predicted cancer risks

A study at Oregon Health & Science University may snuff out claims by tobacco companies that smoking such marketed "potentially reduced-exposure product" (PREP) cigarettes is safer. The study found that the predicted risks of lung cancer from PREP cigarettes are not meaningfully lower than for the conventional cigarettes that most smokers puff on every day. The report demonstrates that science does not adequately understand the sources of the cancer effects of smoke from conventional cigarettes.

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