I'm close to someone that works in tobacco manufacturing. It's not just tobacco that people are smoking. There is also a bizaare host of additives, many of which you would not ever consider in the normal course of thought.
"There is also a bizarre host of additives,. . ." Don't know about additives, but here's a list of ingredients. In reality, there are 599 ingredients in a cigarette. Here are just some of those 599…. Particularly GROSS ingredients: -Tar: This ingredient, which gives cigarettes flavor, is the same thick black substance used to pave roads and driveways. formaldehyde's: This is the same stuff used to preserve dead animals, like the frogs dissected in some biology classes. -Cyanide: also a main ingredient in rat poison. -Lead: It's also found in some kinds of paint. -Acetone: a common ingredient in paint and nail polish remover. -Ammonia: Besides the fact that it's in many household cleaners, it's also in cigarettes. -Carbon monoxide: a common pollutant and the same stuff that escapes from the exhaust in cars. -Hydrazine: a chemical used in jets and rocket fuel. Carcinogenic or Cancer Causing Ingredients: Nitrosamines Crysenes Cadmium Benzo(a)pyrene Polonium 210 Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) Nickel DibenzAcidine B-Napthylamine Urethane N.Nitrosonornicotine Toluidine Metals Aluminum Beryllium Zinc Magnesium Mercury Gold Silicon Silver Titanium Lead Copper And some other gross stuff is in there too… Acetone: Nail Polish Remover Acetic Acid: Vinegar Ammonia: Floor /Toilet Cleaner Arsenic: Poison Benzene Butane: Lighter Fluid Cadmium: NiCad Batteries Carbon Monoxide: Car Exhaust Fumes Cyanide: Metabolic Poison Chloroform: Anesthetic DDT/Dieldrin: Insecticides Ethanol: Alcohol Formaldehyde: Preserver (Body, Tissue and Fabric) Hexamine: Barbecue Lighter Methane: Swamp Gas Methanol: Rocket Fuel Napthalene: Mothballs Nicotine: Insecticide, Addictive Drug Nitrobenzene: Gasoline Additive Nitrous Oxide Phenols : Disinfectant Stearic Acid: Candle Wax Toluene: Industrial Solvent Vinyl Chloride: Makes PVC Also found some interesting quotes, FWIW. By 1836, it was already well-established "that thousands and tens of thousands die of diseases of the lungs generally brought on by tobacco smoking. . . . How is it possible to be otherwise? Tobacco is a poison. A man will die of an infusion of tobacco as of a shot through the head." —Samuel Green, New England Almanack and Farmer's Friend (1836). Yes, "nicotine is a poison."—Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. Memo 1978, cited in Georgina Lovell, You Are the Target: Big Tobacco: Lies, Scams—Now the Truth (Vancouver, B.C: Chryan Communications, 2002).
"There is also a bizaare host of additives,. . ."
Don't know about additives, but here's a list of ingredients.
In reality, there are 599 ingredients in a cigarette.
Here are just some of those 599….
Particularly GROSS ingredients:
-Tar: This ingredient, which gives cigarettes flavor, is the same thick black substance used to pave roads and driveways.
-Formaldehyde: This is the same stuff used to preserve dead animals, like the frogs dissected in some biology classes.
-Cyanide: also a main ingredient in rat poison.
-Lead: It's also found in some kinds of paint.
-Acetone: a common ingredient in paint and nail polish remover.
-Ammonia: Besides the fact that it's in many household cleaners, it's also in cigarettes.
-Carbon monoxide: a common pollutant and the same stuff that escapes from the exhaust in cars.
-Hydrazine: a chemical used in jets and rocket fuel.
Carcinogenic or Cancer Causing Ingredients:
Nitrosamines
Crysenes
Cadmium
Benzo(a)pyrene
Polonium 210
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
Nickel
DibenzAcidine
B-Napthylamine
Urethane
N.Nitrosonornicotine
Toluidine
Metals
Aluminum
Beryllium
Zinc
Magnesium
Mercury
Gold
Silicon
Silver
Titanium
Lead
Copper
And some other gross stuff is in there too…
Acetone: Nail Polish Remover
Acetic Acid: Vinegar
Ammonia: Floor /Toilet Cleaner
Arsenic: Poison
Benzene
Butane: Lighter Fluid
Cadmium: NiCad Batteries
Carbon Monoxide: Car Exhaust Fumes
Cyanide: Metabolic Poison
Chloroform: Anesthetic
DDT/Dieldrin: Insecticides
Ethanol: Alcohol
Formaldehyde: Preserver (Body, Tissue and Fabric)
Hexamine: Barbecue Lighter
Methane: Swamp Gas
Methanol: Rocket Fuel
Napthalene: Mothballs
Nicotine: Insecticide, Addictive Drug
Nitrobenzene: Gasoline Additive
Nitrous Oxide Phenols : Disinfectant
Stearic Acid: Candle Wax
Toluene: Industrial Solvent
Vinyl Chloride: Makes PVC
Also found some interesting quotes, FWIW.
By 1836, it was already well-established "that thousands and tens of thousands die of diseases of the lungs generally brought on by tobacco smoking. . . . How is it possible to be otherwise? Tobacco is a poison. A man will die of an infusion of tobacco as of a shot through the head." —Samuel Green, New England Almanack and Farmer's Friend (1836).
Yes, "nicotine is a poison."—Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. Memo 1978, cited in Georgina Lovell, You Are the Target: Big Tobacco: Lies, Scams—Now the Truth (Vancouver, B.C: Chryan Communications, 2002).
There are additives in just about everything,that argument won't do it.