There are more than 4,000 ingredients in a cigarette other than tobacco. In fact, the same toxins and chemicals found in tobacco products can also be found in the air around toxic waste dumps. Common additives include yeast, wine, caffeine, beeswax and chocolate.
www.smokefreedom.net/articles/ingredients.htm
This is not an exhaustive list of chemicals contained in a cigarette but it gives examples that many people will be able to recognise and relate to the effects of cigarettes smoking.
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Most of the chemicals inhaled in cigarette smoke stay in the lungs. The more you inhale, the better it feels—and the greater the damage to your lungs. ... For the first time, an American tobacco company has begun listing long-secret ingredients contained in its cigarettes directly on the label. Yesterday, Liggett Group Inc.
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Cigarettes don't just make a person look older, they make a person look old. Smokers age more quickly, and if you like the idea of looking 60 when you're 40, then smoke away. If you're 16, you'll be 40 before you know it, and if you smoke, you'll look 60 (if you're not dead from cigarette chemicals first...)
www.borndigital.com/tchem.htm
Tar– It’s the stuff that actually transports many of the other chemicals contained in cigarette smoke directly into the body. Tar is dark, viscous substance that paralyses the cilia ( small hairs which protect and clean the lungs) and can also stain teeth and fingernails.
www.steubencony.org/realitycheck/whatsincigs.html
This site lists chemicals in tobacco and tobacco smoke, legal maximums for tbose chemicals, and references. ... "'Every regular cigarette smoker is injured . . . Cigarette smoking kills some, makes others lung cripples, gives still others far more than their share of illness and loss of work days. Cigarette smoking is not...
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When cigarette smoke is inhaled, the chemicals contained in it are quickly absorbed by the lungs and released into the bloodstream. From the blood, these chemicals pass into the brain, heart, kidneys, liver, lungs, gastrointestinal tract, muscle, and fat tissue.
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Smoking harms not just the smoker, but also family members, coworkers and others who breathe the smoker's cigarette smoke, called secondhand smoke. ... Secondhand smoke from a parent's cigarette increases a child's chances for middle ear problems, causes coughing and wheezing, and worsens asthma conditions.
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The chemicals contained in a cigarette are mostly never disclosed by manufacturing companies. Those companies do not care about harmful effects of chemicals contained in a cigarette, on customer's health, as long as they remain addicted and keep buying them! ... The chemicals contained in a cigarette, are some of the...
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Smoking a cigarette, Mike may think he looks "kewl" with his nice clothes and "phat" attitude. But when students look at the flip side of this figure to see Mike's heart, lungs, and teeth, they will see the obvious ill affects caused by the poisonous chemicals contained in cigarette smoke.
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