The Real Ingredients in Cigarettes
Many people naively believe that cigarettes are nothing more than rolled tobacco; how bad can it be to simply have a burning plant around you?
The real truth however is that the tobacco companies have been adding other ingredients to cigarettes since their invention, not only to improve the taste and flavor but to add to their addictiveness as well.
Unfortunately these ingredients are not only typically toxic on their own, but when they go through the chemical reaction of being burned, they increase in toxicity as well.
Carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, hydrogen cyanide, formaldehyde, and ammonia are all present in cigarette smoke. 43 known carcinogens are in mainstream smoke, passive or secondhand smoke, or both.
- Mothballs contain naphthalenes, also found in cigarettes. This proven poison causes reproductive and brain breakdown.
- The cadmium in batteries is extremely poisonous when found in cigarettes and results in kidney damage.
- Tar is an ingredient found in roads and tires as well as cigarettes. A two pack a day smoker inhales one gram of tar a day. That is a quart of thick, gooey tar inhaled a year.
- The arsenic used to kill rats is also found in cigarettes. It causes irritated lungs, abnormal heart beat, and a score of other symptoms.
- Acetone is an ingredient found in nail polish remover as well as cigarettes. It is a harsh chemical which irritates your lungs and can lead to cancer.
- The toxic phenol found in plastics and cigarettes can cause kidney and liver damage and reduced blood pressure, resulting in severe sickness and possibly death.
- The ammonia in bleach speeds the delivery of nicotine to smokers and changes the reading of tar in cigarettes, making it seem lower.
So ask yourself, do you care to inhale the same ingredients found in nail polish remover, melted plastic, rat poison, batteries, and mothballs? And yet those are the same ingredients in every cigarette, not to mention tar, ammonia, nicotine, and other poisons.
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