Safer cigarettes expect smokers in future
Philip Morris announced about a new kind of cigarettes that ’ funded NC-State researchers announced genuinely phenomenal news: it is possible for future to grow tobacco plants with reduced level of some carcinogens.
Researchers announced that they managed to modify genetically the plant structure and diminish the level of carcinogens in their cured leaves. It seems to be a revolution in tobacco industry and producing of tobacco products. The researchers have worked in this sphere for more than 10 years and finely they have reached the expected result.
“I’m convinced that there’s very little we can do on the toxicant side,” Mitch Zeller, the FDA’s former director of the Office of Tobacco Programs said.
“But imagine a world, however many decades from now, in which the cigarette remains as deadly and toxic as it is today, but it’s not addictive because there’s no nicotine in it.”
Even this discovery is a great step in tobacco production effects of smoking still remains dangerous for people and this feature will never change.
“They’ve already demonstrated they can... reduce the toxicant level in the leaf and reduce the toxicant level a little bit in the finished product,” he said.
“But the reality is that when you finish with all these modifications, you’re going to stuff the leaves into a cigarette and burn it,” added Zeller.
Even so, let’s be more optimistic because reducing the number of carcinogens is already an important progress and who knows maybe some day in the future cigs would become as safer as a cup of green tea.
