Smokers who buy low-tar cigarettes in the hope they will not ... follows an EU directive last year meaning tobacco manufacturers are no longer allowed to use terms such as "light" and "mild ...

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 ...

An online study published in the Lancet has revealed how British American Tobacco (BAT), a cigarette manufacturer has been adopting a strategy to mask the toxicity of the manufactured cigarettes.