Cigarette Additives...

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but what is really in most cigarettes?


In April of 1994 the five major American cigarette companies submitted to the Dept. of Health and Human Service a list of 599 additives to commercially manufactured cigarettes. 

(Note: The list of ingredients had been kept a secret prior to this.)

This list is something every smoker should see.

http://doc-haynes.com/observations/cigarettes.html << click that link for the list.

 The US Government approves this list!

The next time you're smoking a cigarette, take a good long look at this list and see cigarettes for what they really are: a delivery system for toxic chemicals and carcinogens.While these ingredients (amazingly for some) are approved as additives for our foods, they were not tested by burning them, and it is the burning of many of these substances which changes their properties, often for the worse. Over 4000 chemical compounds are created by burning a cigarette, many of which are toxic and/or carcinogenic. Forty-three known carcinogens are in mainstream smoke, sidestream smoke, or both.Carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, hydrogen cyanide and ammonia are all present in cigarette smoke.

It sickens and disapoints me that I am craving a cigarette so badly right now.


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