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Cigarette Smoke Ingredients

Cigarette Smoke Ingredients. Acetic Acid: vinegar Acetone: nail polish remover Ammonia: cleaning agent Arsenic: poison, used as an insecticide. Butane: lighter fluid Cadmium: found in batteries Carbon Monoxide: gas in car exhaust

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Cigarette Smoke Ingredients

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  1. Cigarette Smoke Ingredients

  2. Acetic Acid: vinegar • Acetone: nail polish remover • Ammonia: cleaning agent • Arsenic: poison, used as an insecticide

  3. Butane: lighter fluid • Cadmium: found in batteries • Carbon Monoxide: gas in car exhaust • DDT: insecticide outlawed by the US Government in the 1970’s because of human teratogenic (birth defect) properties

  4. Ethanol: alcohol • Formaldehyde: substance used to preserve body tissue; a known carcinogen • Hexamine: barbecue lighter • Hydrogen cyanide: gas chamber poison

  5. Mercury: used in thermometers • Methane: sewer gas • Methanol: rocket fuel • Naphthalene: moth balls • Nitrobenzene: gasoline additive

  6. Nitrous Oxide: a disinfectant • Stearic acid: candle wax • Tar: used in roofing and paving • Toluene: an industrial solvent • Vinyl chloride: plastic piping

  7. Smokeless tobacco

  8. Two types of smokeless tobacco: • Chew (shredded) • Snuff: ground tobacco that is inhaled • The user places a golf ball size amount of chewing tobacco inside the cheek. • Smokeless tobacco causes bad breath known as halitosis

  9. Nicotine is the drug in tobacco that causes addiction. • Tar is the black substance in tobacco that causes cancer. • Leukoplakia: White wrinkled skin patches in the mouth

  10. Two types of cancer associated with smokeless tobacco: • Oral • Pharynx • Two cancer-causing ingredients in chew: • Formaldehyde • Polonium 210

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