The industry's first such innovation, low-tar cigarettes, has now won a majority of sales.

There is no evidence that smoking low-tar cigarettes lowers the risk.

Kent's instant success led to a competitive battle for low-tar cigarettes.

Other 1980s effects also took place, with Bond smoking low-tar cigarettes and becoming increasingly health conscious.

The researchers also assessed the risk of heart attack based on whether the participant smoked medium- or low-tar cigarettes.

Some of the best-selling products, for example, are low-tar cigarettes, which appeal to many smokers who want to quit.

Ryan leaned back and lit another low-tar cigarette bought from the kiosk on the next floor down.

The risks of heart attacks were slightly greater with medium-tar rather than low-tar cigarettes, but the difference was not definite.

Similarly, in Denmark, with advertising, took to low-tar cigarettes more slowly than Norway, without.

It did so again with Marlboro Lights, marketed as having full flavor in a low-tar cigarette.

"Even low-tar cigarettes produced a big risk."

He sat on the edge of his bed, longing for a cigar but lighting one of Monica's low-tar cigarettes.

The paper points out that low-tar cigarettes using special blends of tobacco could keep the level of nicotine up while tar was reduced.

But his statement did not dispute that tobacco companies used tobacco blends with higher levels of nicotine when they make low-tar cigarettes.

Other than that, the new product is like conventional low-tar cigarettes, with no reduction in the smoke reaching the smoker through the filter, the company said.

Stephen Brody, another Justice Department lawyer, said the companies had always known that low-tar cigarettes did not reduce health risks.

As a result of these implicit and widespread health claims, the popularity of light and low-tar cigarettes grew considerably.

Reynolds said the new product, called Vantage Excel 100's, is a low-tar cigarette that produces less smoke than similar products at the lighted end.

Low-tar cigarettes have been a growing portion of cigarette sales since Carlton was introduced in 1964, and now make up the majority of cigarettes sold.

"With every product in the United States that consumers use," he said, "there's been a tremendous move to lighter tastes, and low-tar cigarettes taste lighter."

McEwan took a packet of ten Superdelux low-tar cigarettes out of his pocket and put one in his mouth.

Cytrel is a cellulose-based tobacco substitute used in some low-tar cigarette brands, famously comprising 25% of the Silk Cut brand.

"The only reason we have low-tar cigarettes on the market is safety, but with those brands, the industry has been making huge profits at the expense of the public health."

A Multnomah County jury ordered Philip Morris to pay more than $150 million in damages for falsely representing low-tar cigarettes as safer than regular ones.