These tiny holes, which you can see by holding the unrolled paper up to a bright light, can allow enough fresh air into the smoke that such cigarettes can test quite low in tar and nicotine levels ...

Smokers who buy low-tar cigarettes in the hope they will not have such a bad effect on their health are mistaken, according to research. A study of almost one million Americans examined links ...

Technically, however, the culprit is not nicotine but tar, a yellowish-brown residue of cigarette smoke after the weight of water and nicotine is removed. These are the particles that cigarette ...

A hard-hitting Government-funded campaign is being launched aimed at alerting smokers to the dangers of low-tar cigarettes. The "death repackaged" campaign uses sophisticated adverts to deliver ...

Not really, experts say. "Even herbal cigarettes with no tobacco give off tar, particulates and carbon monoxide, and are dangerous to your health," according to the American Cancer Society (ACS).