Source: American Lung Association
TWO-MINUTE READ:
What’s in a Cigarette?
There are 600 ingredients in cigarettes.
When burned, cigarettes create more than 7,000 chemicals.
At least 69 of these chemicals are known to cause cancer, and many are toxic.
Here are a few of the chemicals in tobacco smoke and other places they are found:
- Acetone—found in nail polish remover
- Acetic acid—an ingredient in hair dye
- Ammonia—a common household cleaner
- Arsenic—used in rat poison
- Benzene—found in rubber cement and gasoline
- Butane—used in lighter fluid
- Cadmium—active component in battery acid
- Carbon monoxide—released in car exhaust fumes
- Formaldehyde—embalming fluid
- Hexamine—found in barbecue lighter fluid
- Lead—used in batteries
- Naphthalene—an ingredient in mothballs
- Methanol—a main component in rocket fuel
- Nicotine—used as an insecticide
- Tar—material for paving roads
- Toluene—used to manufacture paint
So…..
Don’t you think it’s time to care about your life more than a puff?
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