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EDITORIAL safer cigarettes. There is a hard core of Seeking out the The case for people who cannot or will not give up, and safer cigarettes could also help in poorer parts engineers of terror ‘safer’ cigarettes of the world, where more and more people are taking up smoking: the World Health Organization predicts that by 2030 more than SPOOKS are kept awake at night by the It’s best to stop smoking. But we 80 per cent of tobacco-related deaths will be in knowledge that there is no reliable way to spot should welcome less unhealthy low to middle-income countries. a potential terrorist. Now, after trawling data options for those who can’t quit We need to find new ways of cutting the since the 1970s, a study has found that risks of tobacco. Nicotine replacements are engineers are three to four times as likely as one solution; reduced-harm products like other graduates to belong to a violent Islamic MANY will doubt tobacco industry modified cigarettes or e-cigarettes – gadgets group in the Muslim world (see page 26). claims that it is sharpening its science to that look like cigarettes and dispense inhalable The researchers suggest that this link may evaluate “healthier cigarettes”. But that’s nicotine – might be another. Without robust be to do with personality, and say t