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Busting the myth that roll-your-own tobacco has fewer additives

  • Written by Simon Chapman, Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
imageRoll-your-own tobacco contains more additives than factory made cigarettes. So let's not kid ourselves it's safer.from www.shutterstock.com

My last column, reported on the huge growth of Australians using roll-your-own tobacco in the past few years. Because of a tobacco tax anomaly, which will end in September this year, many smokers have migrated...

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