Our list of 5 healthiest, least harmful cigarettes with the least chemicals will help you choose healthier options and eventually quit smoking as well. It is common knowledge that all cigarettes contain carcinogens which can shorten our lives significantly and lead to smoking-related diseases. No matter which cigarettes we choose, we will be exposed to a health risk. There are no safe cigarettes which do not contain any toxicants, but quitting smoking is not as easy as talking about it. All smokers go through this dilemma at least once in their lives, and we are constantly in search of a compromise, something to make us feel a little less guilty for smoking.
While there is no arguing with the fact that all cigarettes are dangerous and damaging to our health, we often debate whether these cigarettes are healthier than those because they contain less nicotine, tar, and other cancer-causing substances. It is not the tobacco that kills us, but the smoke and countless additives found in cigarettes, which seriously damage our health, but yet provide a unique flavored taste that we enjoy. There is a selection of flavored cigarettes designed to attract people with refined or unusual taste. You can read more about different flavored cigarettes on our list 5 Best Tasting Cigarettes for New Smokers.
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As a way to attract those who wish to quit smoking, tobacco manufacturers designed cigarettes with labels such as “mild” and “light”, referring to the content of tar and nicotine. However, while this sounded appealing, it was actually proven to be counterproductive. Misguided by the label, people were led to believe that consuming light cigarettes is less harmful because it contains less nicotine, and therefore they inhaled more smoke as to compensate for the amount of nicotine, so the result was the same. The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 decided to prohibit labeling cigarettes as “light” or “mild”.
Since tar and nicotine are responsible for the smoking-related diseases, tobacco manufacturers designed brands with lower levels of the two, therefore offering us a choice. According to the Federal Trade Commission Cigarette Report for 2013, unlike before, now we have countless brands offering low-tar cigarettes with numbers that go as low as 0.2%.
By the way, you can watch the video below to find out 7 cigarette brands that contain the lowest tar and nicotine.
What really affects levels of tar and nicotine are actually filters of different size and density, and holes made in cigarettes to dilute the amount of smoke. Chemical additives in the paper or tobacco also affect the tar and nicotine measurements, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
In order to collect data on 5 healthiest, least harmful cigarettes with the least chemicals we searched through the Public Health Law Center, American Lung Association, Center for Disease Control and Prevention among many others. The result was no surprise – no cigarettes are healthy and chemicals-free. But there are a few alternatives which may lessen the effect of additives that cause cancer and many other diseases. More importantly, some of them may help you overcome your addiction. Here is our list of healthiest, least harmful cigarettes with the least chemicals:
