Chemicals Contained in Cigarettes
Ever wondered exactly what chemicals are contained in cigarettes? Here we present you with a selection of our favourite chemicals (well, we don’t have room to present you with all 400!) Take a nice long drag on your cigaratte, as you may not be enjoying it quite as much by the end of this post.
Arsenic – a common rat poison, and the murder weapon of choice for estranged lovers.
Formaldehyde – used to preserve dead bodies. Ironic, as it may have caused some of those deaths, leading, as it does, to cancer as well as to unpleasant ailments such as respiratory, skin and gastrointestinal problems.
Ammonia – Cigarette companies find the necessary for flavouring, and it also aids the freeing of nicotine from tobacco. You can also find it in toilet cleaning and dry cleaning fluids.
Acetone – also used as a nail varnish remover.
Hydrogen Cyanide – an extremely poisonous substance, which has been used in chemical warfare, by the Germans in the holocaust (when it was given the name Zyklon B) and by the Americans to kill criminals.
Carbon Monoxide – another highly toxic carinogen, also found in car exhaust fumes.
Nicotine – consists of a tiny fraction of a cigarette – usually less than 3 % – but is the sole reason for our addiction. Nicotine raises the blood pressure, and releases fat and cholestorol into the body. It is the only chemical contained in the electronic cigarette.
You may now be wondering, as I am, why you ever took up smoking in the first place, probably back when you – like me – were young and stupid. I wonder if I would still have taken it up if I knew all the chemicals that had been contained in these cigarettes!
Check out the e-cigarette – free of tobacco, tar and carcinogens!
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October 10th, 2008 at 9:07 am
Great post dude. What ever you have listed are the chemicals contained in cigarettes and these are very harmful to our health.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:32 am
Just a bit – Arsenic is the one that gets me!