%0 Journal Article %A T Higenbottam %A M J Shipley %A G Rose %T Cigarettes, lung cancer, and coronary heart disease: the effects of inhalation and tar yield. %D 1982 %R 10.1136/jech.36.2.113 %J Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health %P 113-117 %V 36 %N 2 %X Ten-year mortality rates for lung cancer and coronary heart disease have been related to cigarette smoking habits in 17 475 male civil servants aged 40-64 and in sample of 8089 male British residents aged 35-69. Both diseases were more frequent in smokers. Lung cancer rates were higher overall for "non-inhalers", particularly in heavy smokers. Tar yield correlated with the risk of lung cancer in non-inhalers but less so in inhalers. Conversely, coronary deaths were more common among inhalers, and the effect of tar/nicotine yield (such as it was) was confined to inhalers. It appears that there are subtle interactions between the amount smoked, the tar/nicotine yield of the cigarette, and the style of smoking. Thus the effects of a change in cigarette characteristics are hard to predict, and they may be different for respiratory and cardiovascular disease. %U https://jech.bmj.com/content/jech/36/2/113.full.pdf