Cigarettes with menthol may make it difficult to quit smoking, especially among young people, experts at the University of Pennsylvania (USA).

Menthol is a compound extracted from mint or produced synthetically, which activates neurons in the nervous system responsible for feeling cold. Cigarettes with menthol make up about 25% of the tobacco market, but they are preferred by certain subgroups of smokers, including about half of teenagers and 80% of African Americans, according to the Internet publication for girls and women aged 14-35. Pannochka.

Net It is established that menthol cigarettes have a higher level of carbon monoxide, nicotine and cotinine per cigarette than conventional cigarettes. The cooling effect of such cigarettes allows you to inhale more nicotine on a cigarette and become more dependent. In fact, it helps easier to draw into light toxic substances from a cigarette, experts say. Menthol in cigarettes makes smoke less severe, so smokers can absorb more nicotine per puff. Thus, it is more difficult to refuse cigarettes with menthol, the researchers say.

News. Gradusnik. En.

Keywords:.