Nicotine and Tar – Combination of Taste and Tragedy

Why smoke cigarettes if it were not for good taste? But hold it a minute; not many are aware that the combination of nicotine, tar and that typical flavor that please you are also the combination just made for disaster. All the top selling brands like Marlboro cigarettes, cheap Camel, Winston, Virginia Slims, Salem, Menthol and lm belong in the same category of discount cigarettes. So, we can hardly differentiate those cigarettes available at premium stores from cheap cigarettes like cheap Marlboro bought at a cheap cigarettes online sale.

Take Marlboro and Virginia Slims on one hand and Carlton and Now cigarettes on the other, for example. Marlboro and Virginia Slims apart from Camel, Winston etc have higher tar and relatively lower nicotine content than the brands Now and Carlton. Marlboro and Virginia Slims contain 15.1 and 15.2mg of tar respectively and 0.9 and 1.02mg nicotine. Well, it is not easy to tell why there is a difference. The simple answer would be to say it is the proprietary formula that governs this difference.

How Does Tar and Nicotine Percentages Affect Taste and Quality of Cigarettes

You can see that I have cleverly avoided the mention of possible effect on health due to higher nicotine and tar presence in cigarettes; however I will take it up later. Well, scientists have plotted graphs of tar Vs nicotine for brands including those like cheap cigarettes, discount cigarettes and cheap cigarettes online sale and cheap Marlboro, Camel etc.

The plot climbs almost like a ramp inclined at 450 meaning that for every 1 mg of increase in tar there is an increase of 0.058mg in nicotine. But we should not get misled that this is a standard rule that every cigarette manufacturer follows across its product portfolio. Refer back to the brands Carlton and Now, these cigarettes have astonishingly lower tar and nicotine content (4.1 & 0.4mg and 1.0 & 0.13mg respectively.)

It is not actually surprising to see why top brands are where they are looking at just to components. Marketing strategies play a huge role but only to take the proverbial horse till the pond but making him drink water isn't in your hands. Now, does it surprise you why Kool is pretty popular among African Americans if you look at its tar/nicotine content? See for yourself, 16.6 and 1.12mg. Obviously, these figures are drawn across brands, discount cigarettes or premium, they all have to fight cut throat to win your patronization.

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