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Cigarette smokers are a tough, addicted breed. With anti-smoking laws tightening and preventing them from smoking in more and more public places, tobacco companies are still trying to keep their customers. Philip Morris has now crated a “mini-cigarette” suitable for the short breaks that smokers may have outdoors. This quick “nicotine fix” is just 7.2 centimeters long, or 1.3 centimeters shortage than the conventional size. But anti-smoking activists oppose it on the grounds that it will prevent many smokers from kicking the habit, and is a ruthless attempt by Philip Morris to take advantage of nicotine addicts.
The mini-cigarette will be tested first in Turkey.

source: JP Health Scan혻

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