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Editor|Ome Kanshi
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Who doesn't have one or two relatives or friends who smoke around them? The prices of all kinds of cigarettes on the supermarket shelves are very different, some cigarettes can be bought for 10 yuan, while others are sold for 1 or 200 yuan!
For non-smokers, they don't know the difference between a 10-dollar cigarette and a 100-dollar cigarette, not only non-smokers, but also many smokers who don't smoke much.
What is the difference between cigarettes of different price grades? Are expensive cigarettes more "healthy" than cheap cigarettes?
The taste varies greatly, and the cost of production varies
For smokers who have never smoked and smoked less, they really don't know what the difference is between different price grades of cigarettes, but for old smokers, they will tell you categorically: the taste is different.
Old smokers who smoke for a long time and smoke a wide variety of cigarettes can easily distinguish the difference in taste between different grades of cigarettes. They will tell you that those expensive cigarettes are soft, smooth, and low irritating, while cheap cigarettes are very heavy, choking, and very irritating, that is, "strong".
Why is there such a difference? It is because the raw materials and processes used in the production of cigarettes at different price points are different.
The first is that the raw materials are different. Expensive cigarettes are made of high-quality tobacco raw materials, and due to the large number of smokers in the mainland, a large part of the tobacco used in the production of cigarettes is imported from abroad. Low-priced cigarettes, on the other hand, are generally made from leftovers or offcuts.
The second is the process problem. The process of making cigarettes is simple, roughly drying the tobacco leaves, cutting them into shreds, and then processing them into cigarettes. In the process of cigarette processing, the two steps that directly affect the taste are tobacco leaf formula and adding ingredients and flavoring.
Tobacco recipe is simply the ratio of different types of tobacco shreds. Different types of tobacco have different flavors, and different flavors can be formulated according to different proportions.
Some cigarette factories will also add different flavors and oils to adjust the taste of cigarettes when processing cigarettes. Of course, depending on the recipe and the amount of flavor, the price of cigarettes will also be different.
Of course, whether cigarette production cuts corners is also an important reason for affecting the taste of cigarettes. The first is the mouthpiece, and high-priced cigarettes will use a mouthpiece with better filtration performance, which can effectively filter the particles in the cigarette, so the taste is softer.
The filter performance of the mouthpiece of low-priced cigarettes is very poor, and a large number of tiny particles will be inhaled when smoking, the taste will be very rough, and the irritation caused by the cigarette will also increase.
In fact, this is the tobacco scraps made into tobacco flakes according to the papermaking process during the production of cigarettes, and the tobacco flakes have a certain fluffiness, and the use of cigarette paper can reduce the amount of tobacco shreds, thereby further reducing the production cost of cigarettes, but the corresponding smoking will be "not strong enough".
However, cigarettes are high-premium goods, although there is a cost difference between high-priced cigarettes and low-priced cigarettes at the time of production, but if it is subdivided into each box and each stick, the difference in production cost is not large.
Social needs are different
In addition to the difference in taste, the social significance represented by different grades of cigarettes is also different. As a commodity with a huge difference between the upper and lower limits of the price range, cigarettes also play an important role in the world.
Most smokers smoke cigarettes in their daily life and work in accordance with their consumption level and taste. In this situation, even if you exchange cigarettes with friends or colleagues, it will not affect your communication.
However, whenever you encounter social places such as work and entertainment, or you want to hold a banquet, some low-cost cigarettes are not so suitable for such occasions, which can easily affect the other party's perception and affect the smooth progress of related work.
成瘾性不同
There are also some differences between high-priced cigarettes and low-priced cigarettes in terms of the addictive nature of smoking. There are many factors that contribute to smoking addiction, the most important of which is the feeling of relaxation and pleasure caused by the stimulation caused by smoking.
Due to the soft taste, the stimulation of smoking to the human body is very low, and the sense of relaxation and pleasure caused by smoking is correspondingly low, and the addiction is relatively low.
If low-priced cigarettes with a rough taste and strong irritation can be accepted, the sense of relaxation and pleasure brought by the strong stimulation will be strong, and the addiction will naturally increase.
Coupled with the fact that cigarettes of different price grades are aimed at people of different social levels, low-income people live under great pressure, so they naturally need strong irritating items to relieve stress.
Therefore, we can see that people around us who are well-off and pampered since childhood can smoke, but their addiction to smoking is very low, while people with poor family conditions often show a very big addiction to smoking once they learn to smoke.
However, the level of addiction mentioned here is only compared with the internal comparison of cigarettes, and cigarettes themselves are still extremely addictive compared to other products. And whether it is low-priced cigarettes or high-priced cigarettes, the harm to the human body is exactly the same.
The harm is the same
It's a cliché that cigarettes are bad for your health. But since we talk about cigarettes, we can't fail to mention the dangers of cigarettes.
Smoking produces large amounts of nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide. Among them, nicotine is an addictive substance, which will penetrate deep into the brain with the oral mucosa, which will stimulate the "reward mechanism" of the human brain, giving people a feeling of relaxation and upliftment.
Long-term smoking and frequent use of external forces to trigger the "reward mechanism" will destroy its original operating logic, and eventually evolve into non-smoking will become irritable and unable to feel relaxed, and only smoking can have the cause and symptoms of "relaxed" feeling.
Tar and carbon monoxide are truly "harmful substances" to the human body, causing throat cancer, lung cancer and a series of respiratory diseases.
According to the statistics of relevant reports, in addition to tar and nicotine in cigarettes, there are at least 69 carcinogens in tobacco smoke caused by cigarette burning!
In other words, in addition to tar and nicotine directly inhaled into the body, the "second-hand smoke" produced by smoking is also a very harmful carcinogen. This "second-hand smoke" can enter the human body with breathing, causing a series of diseases.
According to relevant statistics, about 1 million people die every year in the mainland from various diseases caused by smoking! Therefore, smoking is not only endangering one's own health, but also the health of those around him.
epilogue
Whether it is a cigarette of 10 yuan or a cigarette of 100 yuan, they are all cigarettes, and the harm to the human body is the same.
Resources
China.com - China Release丨Tobacco smoke contains 69 carcinogens More than 1 million people in mainland China lose their lives due to tobacco every year 2021.05.31
People's Daily Online - There are 69 carcinogens in tobacco Quitting smoking is the most effective way to prevent lung cancer 2023.07.05
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