What chemicals cigarettes have and their side effects?
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• Various Chemicals in Tobacco Smoke :-
There are about 600 chemicals in a cigarette which when burned create over 7,000 chemicals in the smoke; many are cancer causing, cancer promoting, poisonous or irritants. Every cigarette smoked may cause one genetic mutation leading to cancer. Twenty cigarettes per day would equal 146,000 gene mutations over 20 years which is why smoking is a leading cause of 30% of all cancers. Many have fallen victim to a marketing campaign promoting “organic” or “natural” tobacco cigarettes. They are just as deadly and actually contain a higher amount of nicotine.
Acetone: Used as nail polish remover.
Acetylene: Used with oxygen in welding torches.
Aluminum: Metal.
Ammonia compounds are used in household cleaners and fertilizers. They are added to increase the pH level of nicotine to increase the speed it hits your brain. Fast absorption increases its addictive nature.
Aromatic Amines: 4-Aminobiphenyl, 2-Naphthylamine. Cause cancer.
Arsenic: A metallic substance, poisonous to all life. The human body can build up a tolerance to arsenic.
Benzene: A cancer causing poison that interferes with cellular metabolism. Used in Napalm and gasoline.
Bronchodilators: Added to expand the airways in the lungs making it easier for smoke to pass into your lungs.
Butane: Cigarette lighter fuel.
Cadmium: A cancer causing metal used in car batteries. It accumulates in the lungs, damages the liver, kidneys and brain, and has an adverse effect on the protective immune system. It can stay in the body for 10 years.
Carbon Monoxide: Same gas that comes from the tailpipe of your car. It deprives the red blood cells of oxygen by binding to the cells in your blood system 230 times faster than oxygen where it can remain for up to six hours. Related to heart attacks and strokes. Affects non-smokers in side-stream smoke coming off the tip of a cigarette.
Chromium: Used to make steel.
DDT: Insecticide banned by most industrialized nations.
Ethanol: Alcohol.
Flavorings: Used to mask the harshness of tobacco; includes menthol which cools and numbs your throat to reduce irritation and make the smoke feel smoother. Children are attracted to different flavors. Banned by the FDA in cigarettes, the Tobacco companies switched to making flavored cigarillos and electronic cigarettes.
Formaldehyde: Used to embalm dead bodies. Damages lungs, skin and digestive tract. Causes cancer.
Hexamine: Used in barbecue lighter fluid.
Hydrazine: Used in jet and rocket fuel.
Hydrogen Cyanide: Poison used in the gas chamber and chemical weapons. EPA standards of 10 parts per million are generally safe. Cigarette smoke produces an average 1600 parts per million.
Lead: Found in old paint and leaded gasoline. Stunts growth. Damages brain, kidneys and nervous system.
Mercury: Heavy metal found in thermometers which affects the central nervous system.
Methane: Sewer or swamp gas.
Methanol: Rocket fuel.
Methoprene: Insecticide used to kill fleas on animals.
Naphthalene: Mothball chemical.
Nickel: Heavy metal affecting central nervous system.
Nicotine: A poisonous alkaloid that is the main active ingredient of tobacco. Originally used as an insecticide but outlawed as too toxic. Levels have been manipulated by the Tobacco Companies to make it as physically addictive as possible.
Nitro-benzene: Gasoline additive.
Nitrous Oxide Phenols: Used as a disinfectant.
Phenol: Toilet bowl disinfectant. Causes irritation of the skin, eyes and mucous membranes.
Polonium-210: Cancer causing radioactive substance. Used in nuclear weapons. The source is the fertilizer used on tobacco leaves. Smoking 30 cigarettes a day for a year is the equivalent to 300 chest x-rays.
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