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Cigarette Ingredients Think there's nothing in cigarettes besides tobacco? Think again. "All Natural" doesn't by any means mean "All Tobacco". The Federal Trade Commission tested the smoke that comes from burning cigarettes and they found more than 5,000 chemicals in cigarette smoke. More than 40 of those cigarette ingredients are known to be human carcinogens - that means they cause cancer - not just in animals, but in humans too. Below is a list of more than 600 of the ingredients found in cigarettes. Check it out so you can see what you and your friends are inhaling when you choose to smoke a cigarette. For more information on some of these ingredients, visit QuitSmokingUK.com's 'Cigarette Ingredients - What's in them?' article. Also, check out Action on Smoking and Health's Tobacco Additives report, which not only gives detailed information about cigarette additives, but the history of how these additives have been used to enhance the taste and addictiveness of cigarettes. Trying to convince someone to quit? Show them this list, or better yet, print it out and give it to them - maybe once they see all of the junk that they're putting into their bodies each time they smoke a cigarette, they'll reconsider. |
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