Smoking ban leads to deeper smoking

Published on April 15, 2008 5:45 AM

The ban has led to different reversed statistics that raise curiosity and many questions in same time. Recently, a report was published concerning the raise of fatal car accidents in USA since the ban launching. The smoking ban should reduce the number of smokers and save lives, but a recent report shows that the reality is different.

According to a study made by international researchers, increasing the cost of cigarettes may actually force smokers to smoke more intensely.

Francesca Cornaglia from the University of London has developed a speech for the Australian National University in Canberra concerning this problem. She said that even smokers buy fewer cigs when the price rises, the smoking process is becomes deeper because the person who smokes tries to ensure the same nicotine levels as it was. In other words, our human body doesn’t understand that prices for smokes increases and the organism needs the same quantity of nicotine as it is accustomed. That’s why smokers inhale more deeply or smoke more cigarette.

“When that happens, the filter doesn't really work for the second half of the cigarette as good as it does for the first half because it has already absorbed tar and other substances,” dr. Cornaglia said.

“So the second half of the cigarette actually gets filtered less properly than the first half,” she added.