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Letter: Letters: Fatal puff

Published 23 October 1993

From DAVID HUGHES

Re ‘Legal Drugs’ (‘Life, the Universe and (almost) everything’, 18 September):
I think there has been some confusion with milli and micrograms. One puff
of a cigarette does not contain 350 milligrams of nicotine – if it did,
smoking would certainly be injurious to health – instantly fatal.

David Hughes Barton Hartshorn, Buckinghamshire

Issue no. 1896 published 23 October 1993

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