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The following chemicals are found in cigarettes:
Benzene (pesticides such as those used in rat poison)
Formaldehyde (used to process dead bodies)
TSNAs (Carcinogens, Cancer causing agents)
Toxic Heavy Metals
Cadmium (Heavy Metal used to make batteries)
Dangerous Poisons in Cigarettes
Hydrogen CYANIDE
Ammonia
Carbon Monoxide
Nicotine
If you stop smoking…20 minutes after you stop smoking for good your body will start repairing itself and continue to do so.

i smoked for 6 years, and i quit last year

It is important for people to know how dangerous environmental smoke is because it can affect the health of many other people live. Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is also called second smoke or passive smoke which is defined as “the smoke you breathe that comes from other people, whether they exhale it or get it from the tobacco burning near you, like the end of a cigarette (side stream smoke).” Environmental tobacco smoke, secondhand smoke, or passive smoke contained over 4000 dangerous chemicals in it such as toxins (poisons) and carcinogens (cancer causing chemicals). Several of these dangerous chemicals are acetone (paint stripper), cyanide (rat poison), DDT (insecticide), ammonia (toilet cleaner), formaldehyde, benzene, vinyl chloride, arsenic and hydrogen cyanide. Non-smokers can get exposed to second-hand smoke everywhere in the public places for instance restaurants, shopping centers, public transportations, workplaces, schools, daycare centers and other places . Therefore, smoking should be banned in all public locations because it makes the public victims of second hand smoke leading to many serious cancers, illnesses and it can also caused many other issues as well.

First of all, I think that smoking should be banned in public places because smoking can affect the environmental health. For example, there are many cigarette butts littering on the ground everyday and many would carrying in the rivers or lakes later by the rain. As a result, these cigarette butts would eaten accidentally by the fishes or other animals that live in the water and would cause them to die. And whatever is left is staying on the ground which would probably takes about twenty-five years to decompose. Therefore, the toxic that remain in cigarette filter would later leak into the soil and contaminating the plants.

Second of all, I think smoking should be banned in public places because it can cause bad air pollution. For example, when they are smoking there are many toxic
chemicals that releases from the smoke of tobacco into the air such as tar, nicotine, benzene, benzopyrene, carbon monoxide, ammonia, dimethyinitrosamine, formaldehyde, hydrogen cyanide and acrolein. Therefore, the smoke that is coming out of the cigarette is harmful for all the non-smokers when they breathe it in. Based on the studies of secondhand smoke, it shows that air pollution can harm the heart and circulatory system. Also, earlier research found that exposure to the secondhand smoke for just one cigarette a day can speed up the development of atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis is defined as “a form of arteriosclerosis characterized by the deposition of atheromatous plaques containing cholesterol and lipids on the innermost layer of the walls of large and medium-sized arteries.”

you have done a great job!!!!
it should be second-hand instead of secondhand
day -care instead of daycare
toxic to be changed as toxins

It is important for people to know how dangerous environmental smoke is because it can affect the health of many other people live. Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is also called second smoke or passive smoke which is defined as “the smoke you breathe that comes from other people, whether they exhale it or get it from the tobacco burning near you, like the end of a cigarette (side stream smoke).” Environmental tobacco smoke, second-hand smoke, or passive smoke contained over 4000 dangerous chemicals in it such as toxins (poisons) and carcinogens (cancer causing chemicals). Several of these dangerous chemicals are acetone (paint stripper), cyanide (rat poison), DDT (insecticide), ammonia (toilet cleaner), formaldehyde, benzene, vinyl chloride, arsenic and hydrogen cyanide. Non-smokers can get exposed to second-hand smoke everywhere in the public places for instance restaurants, shopping centres, public transportations, workplaces, schools, day-care centres and other places . Therefore, smoking should be banned in all public locations because it makes the public victims of second hand smoke leading to many serious cancers, illnesses and it can also caused many other issues as well.

First of all, I think that smoking should be banned in public places because smoking can affect the environmental health. For example, there are many cigarette butts littering on the ground everyday and many would carrying in the rivers or lakes later by the rain. As a result, these cigarette butts would eaten accidentally by the fishes or other animals that live in the water and would cause them to die. And whatever is left is staying on the ground which would probably takes about twenty-five years to decompose. Therefore, the toxins that remain in cigarette filter would later leak into the soil and contaminating the plants.

Second of all, I think smoking should be banned in public places because it can cause bad air pollution. For example, when they are smoking there are many toxic
chemicals that releases from the smoke of tobacco into the air such as tar, nicotine, benzene, benzopyrene, carbon monoxide, ammonia, dimethyinitrosamine, formaldehyde, hydrogen cyanide and acrolein. Therefore, the smoke that is coming out of the cigarette is harmful for all the non-smokers when they breathe it in. Based on the studies of second-hand smoke, it shows that air pollution can harm the heart and circulatory system. Also, earlier research found that exposure to the second-hand smoke for just one cigarette a day can speed up the development of atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis is defined as “a form of arteriosclerosis characterized by the deposition of atheromatous plaques containing cholesterol and lipids on the innermost layer of the walls of large and medium-sized arteries.”

Hope I have not missed out any thing more ………..:)

Benzene (petrol additive)
A colourless cyclic hydrocarbon obtained from coal and petroleum, used as a solvent in fuel and in chemical manufacture – and contained in cigarette smoke. It is a known carcinogen and is associated with leukaemia.

Formaldehyde (embalming fluid)
A colourless liquid, highly poisonous, used to preserve dead bodies – also found in cigarette smoke. Known to cause cancer, respiratory, skin and gastrointestinal problems.

Ammonia (toilet cleaner)
Used as a flavouring, frees nicotine from tobacco turning it into a gas, found in dry cleaning fluids.

Acetone (nail polish remover)
Fragrant volatile liquid ketone, used as a solvent, for example, nail polish remover – found in cigarette smoke.

Tar
Particulate matter drawn into lungs when you inhale on a lighted cigarette. Once inhaled, smoke condenses and about 70 per cent of the tar in the smoke is deposited in the smoker’s lungs.

Nicotine (insecticide/addictive drug)
One of the most addictive substances known to man, a powerful and fast-acting medical and non-medical poison. This is the chemical which causes addiction.

Carbon Monoxide (CO) (car exhaust fumes)
An odourless, tasteless and poisonous gas, rapidly fatal in large amounts – it’s the same gas that comes out of car exhausts and is the main gas in cigarette smoke, formed when the cigarette is lit. Others you may recognize are :

Arsenic (rat poison), Hydrogen Cyanide (gas chamber poison)

source: Health Education Authority (UK) – Lifesaver

The list of 599 additives approved by the US Government for use in the manufacture of cigarettes is something every smoker should see. Submitted by the five major American cigarette companies to the Dept. of Health and Human Services in April of 1994, this list of ingredients had long been kept a secret.

Tobacco companies reporting this information were:

American Tobacco Company
Brown and Williamson
Liggett Group, Inc.
Philip Morris Inc.
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company

While these ingredients are approved as additives for 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. Carbon monoxide
nitrogen oxides, hydrogen cyanide and ammonia are all present in cigarette smoke. Forty-three known carcinogens are in mainstream smoke, sidestream smoke, or both.

It’s chilling to think about not only how smokers poison themselves, but what others are exposed to by breathing in the secondhand smoke. The next time you’re missing your old buddy, the cigarette, take a good long look at this list and see them for what they are: a delivery system for toxic chemicals and carcinogens.

Cigarettes offer people only a multitude of smoking-related diseases and ultimately death.

Smokers…if you are brave enough then have a look.

http://quitsmoking.about.com/cs/nicotineinhaler/a/cigingredients.htm

what is your opinion on smoking. i hate it and will not go near a ciggiratte ever and i think the smoking ban was fantastic as my local pub smells better and you can actually go in there without choking on the fumes and when i found out that this is in a ciggy:

Acetic Acid (Corrosive to respiratory tract)
Acetone (used in nail polish removers.)
Ammonia. (Used in floor and toilet cleaners)
Arsenic (a poison)
Cadmium (Car battery Fluid)
Carbon Monoxide (interferes with the supply of oxygen in the blood to the rest of the body)
DDT/ dielderon (Insecticides)
Ethanol (Alcohol)
Formalin (used in preserving human tissue and fabric)
Hexamine (used in explosive compounds)
Hydrogen Cyanide (Poison)
Methane (Petroleum Gas)
Naphthalene (used in moth balls)
Nicotine (Schedule 6 Poison)
Nitro Benzene (a petrol additive)
Phenols (used in disinfectants)
Stearic Acid (used in candle wax)
Toluene (Industrial solvent)
Vinyl Chloride (used in PVC)
sorry i ran out of words
but any way every time a smoker walked p[assed me i thought a) i was gonna die
b) how can these people live
c) no wonder it kills you

I like that you don’t like to smoke. But you can’t just READ something and say you know everything on it. I personally hate smoking and alcohol because of family members who have abused the two substances and made my life a living hell and still to this day. I also gag when I smell smoke, and pissed off when I see liquor.

Acetone: – nail polish remover
Ammonia: Household cleaner
Angelica root extract: Known to cause cancer in animals
Arsenic: Used in rat poisons
Benzene: Used in making dyes, synthetic rubber
Butane: Gas; used in lighter fluid
Carbon monoxide: Poisonous gas
Cadmium: Used in batteries
Cyanide: Deadly poison
DDT: A banned insecticide
Ethyl Furoate: Causes liver damage in animals
Formaldehiyde: Used to preserve dead specimens
Hydrazine: – rocket fuel
Hydrogen Cyanide: – rat poison
Lead: Poisonous in high doses
Methoprene: Insecticide
Megastigmatrienone: Chemical naturally found in grapefruit juice
Maltitol: Sweetener for diabetics
Methyl isocyanate: Its accidental release killed 2000 people in Bhopal, India in 1984
Napthalene: Ingredient in mothballs
Nicotine: – a poison used to kill cockroaches
Polonium: Cancer-causing radioactive element

Additives in manufactured & processed cigarettes.
(Which is different than plain tobacco.)
For the complete list on 599 additives see…
http://quitsmoking.about.com/cs/nicotineinhaler/a/cigingredients.htm

Scroll down looking at left side of page for a total of 3 pages.

The following was sent to me. Is it true? I don’t have a/c in my car but know people who do.

Please do not turn on A/C as soon as you enter the car. Open the windows after you enter your car and turn ON the air-conditioning after a couple of minutes.
Here’s why: According to research, the car dashboard, sofa, air freshener emit Benzene, a Cancer causing toxin (carcinogen – take time to observe the smell of heated plastic in your car). In addition to causing cancer, Benzene poisons your bones, causes anemia and reduces white blood cells. Prolonged exposure will cause Leukemia, increasing the risk of cancer. May also cause miscarriage. Acceptable Benzene level indoors is 50 mg per sq. ft.. A car parked indoors with windows closed will contain 400-800 mg of Benzene. If parked outdoors under the sun at a temperature above 60 degrees F, the Benzene level goes up to 2000-4000 mg, 40 times the acceptable level… People who get into the car, keeping windows closed will inevitably inhale, in quick succession excessive amounts of the toxin.
Benzene is a toxin that affects your kidney and liver. What’s worse, it is extremely difficult for your body to expel this toxic stuff.
So friends, please open the windows and door of your car – give time for interior to air out – dispel the deadly stuff – before you enter.
Thanks.
I know a lot of emails like that are scaremongering but I don’t have or know much about air con to have an opinion. It was sent to me by someone who I thought would know about these things.

It is a load of rubbish. Any such harmful chemicals are in too low a concentration to cause problems or not present at all.

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First of all, I know cigarettes are bad for you but why don’t they minimise the damage? I mean, for starters, why do they have to put chemicals into cigarettes (like cyanide, benzene, etc.) when tobacco does not contain any of these compounds? Tobacco is a plant and should not have harmful ingredients in it other than nicotine. Why is it impossible to sell cigarettes containing nothing but tobacco? I understand that these chemicals will make the ciggies burn faster and other tricky things but I’m sure if those additives weren’t there in the first place then cigarettes would be nowhere near as harmful. So it should be nicotine and the carbon dioxide/monoxide only that poisoning us. In addition, they could put some vitamins and minerals into cigarettes so that at least some good can be inhaled with the bad.
David C, thanx for the explanation on combustion but I’m very aware of this subject. Combustion of a plant on its own wouldn’t produce cyanide, Polonium, etc. Oxides of Nitrogen are, yes, bad for you, but you’d get them from car fumes or just at your bankholiday Monday barbeque!

you are so correct, if they would take out some of the bad things then cigarettes would be ok (i think) to smoke. i have been off them for 14 months but i still wish i could smoke, if they did what you are suggesting, i and many more would be able to enjoy one again (i think) thanks for the nice thought, have a good day.

Benzene poisoning occurs primarily through inhalation of its vapors. Although benzene can penetrate the skin, intact skin does not easily absorb benzene into the body.

Benzene primarily attacks the blood-forming tissues of the body. Benzene damages the bone marrow where red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets are formed. These three components make up the blood and a shortage of any one of them will result in serious blood disease. Benzene is known to affect all three of these components and thus workers exposed to benzene show a variety of blood diseases.