When I was smoking my usual brand of cigarettes - Lambert and Butler Gold (lights) I noticed that I started having heart palpitations. This is not normal for me, and it got that bad that I couldn't sleep. I suspected that it may be the cigarettes and so I changed my brand and started smoking Silk Cut instead. The palpitations stopped. These cigarettes are also 'lights' and so the strength of them are pretty much the same. When consulting with a friend who also used to smoke Lambert and Butler Gold, she also reported the same symptoms - she thought it was just the fact that she was smoking that caused the palpitations and so quit smoking altogether.

As an experiment, when my packet of Silk Cut finished, I decided to buy a packet of 10 Lambert and Butler lights to see if my symptoms returned. The results were that I did start to suffer palpitations again. Upon then returning to smoking Silk Cut, the palpitations have stopped.

The results of this experiment have given me no choice but to come to the conclusion that Lambert and Butler must have changed the content of their Gold cigarettes, putting something else in them to cause these symptoms in myself and my friend.

Has anyone else experienced the same thing? How do we go about finding someone to test the theory properly and investigate exactly what goes into Lambert and Butler Gold cigarettes, to cause this effect?