American researchers “the tobacco companies manipulating the menthol ratio (substance extracted from mint oil) in cigarettes, in purpose of making the first cigarettes puffs tasty for the teenagers, which its regarded smart way to attracts smokers.

Reuters agency published report by D.r Gregory Conoly who is Harvard college teacher concerned with studying the public health, saying “menthol enhances the cooling receptors in lungs and throat  ...Which makes smoking a lot easier for them” ,while the cigarettes companies representatives (Rj Rinolds and Philip morse ) didn’t agree with the study research results.

Rj Rinolds company (which makes camel and cool typed cigarettes) spokesman David Haward said “the study report is just an attempt to support the tobacco production restrictions union, and not just a study for menthol.”

And also the popularity of menthol cigs is increasing and especially within teenagers ,while the studies scanned the united states area and found out that 44% of smokers who are aged 12_17 smokes menthol ,also 36% of smokers aged 18_24 are smoking menthol cigs too.

Conoly and his colleagues done researches about the smoking concerning the menthol consumption, also they did practical tests to study the attraction of menthol smokes within people,and they found out that the factories modifies the menthol ratio to make cigs more attractive for teenagers ,and according to the study done, in 1987 Rj Rinolds started marketing low menthol ratio cigs to attract teenagers smokers (cause the feedback of smoking high ratio menthol cigs were negative ..and cannot be taken by new aged smokers unless the ratio are low.

Also Conoly said that the companies with regular menthol ratio produced cigs ,targets the teenagers attraction ,while the stronger menthol ration attracts the aged smokers ,and also said in phone call interview “ menthol helps nicotine reduced ,but its hard to take by new smokers .”

American society concerned with lungs protection says “each individual day 4 thousand teenager below 18 smokes first cig, and 1100 of them becomes permanent smokers.”

And he added saying that the results calculated must restrict the tobacco use by the American drugs and food management center, and the American legislation laws discussed by the council lounge does prohibit the new the fruit and candy flavored cigs, but menthol not included.