Smoking/Ingredients
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What is in a Cigarette?
There are 4,000 chemicals found in cigarettes including:
Ingredient: | Found in: |
1. Carbon Monoxide | 1. Gas from Car Exhaust |
2. Tar | 2. Road Surfaces |
3. Nicotine | 3. Pesticide |
4. Butane | 4. Lighter Fluid |
5. Acetone | 5. Nail Varnish |
6. Ammonia | 6. Cleaning Products |
7. Arsenic | 7. Rat Poison |
8. Hydrogen Cyanide | 8. Poison used on Death Row |
9. Formaldehyde | 9. Used to Pickle Dead Bodies |
10. Polonium 210 | 10. Radioactive Element |
View a picture at: http://www.tricountycessation.org/tobaccofacts/images/partsofcigarette.gif
250 of the ingredients are toxic
More than 60 are known carcinogens (cancer causing)
Tri-county Cessation Center [1]