You are still smoking - WHY?
31 March 2008So you still think Smoking is cool?
Its 2008 how could anyone possibly think that smoking is ok anymore? The tobacco companies have been sued and lost, yet according to the American Lung Association “Each day, 4,000 children under 18 years of age smoke their first cigarette. Almost 1,100 of them will become regular smokers. …” So what’s it going to take to make people quit, or better yet to stop people picking up that first cigarette in the first place? Maybe it would help to see what they are actually smoking. I was mistakenly under the impression that a cigarette contained tobacco plants all shredded up and rolled into a convenient package, not so it seems. A complete list of chemicals in a cigarette is listed below thanks to Quit Smoking Support.com. On their website they report: “There are more than 4,000 ingredients in a cigarette other than tobacco. Common additives include yeast, wine, caffeine, beeswax and chocolate. Here are some other ingredients:
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Ammonia: Household cleaner
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Angelica root extract: Known to cause cancer in animals
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Arsenic: Used in rat poisons
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Benzene: Used in making dyes, synthetic rubber
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Butane: Gas; used in lighter fluid
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Carbon monoxide: Poisonous gas
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Cadmium: Used in batteries
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Cyanide: Deadly poison
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DDT: A banned insecticide
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Ethyl Furoate: Causes liver damage in animals
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Lead: Poisonous in high doses
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Formaldehiyde: Used to preserve dead specimens
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Methoprene: Insecticide
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Megastigmatrienone: Chemical naturally found in grapefruit juice
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Maltitol: Sweetener for diabetics
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Napthalene: Ingredient in mothballs
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Methyl isocyanate: Its accidental release killed 2000 people in Bhopal, India in 1984
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Polonium: Cancer-causing radioactive element”
Do people really understand or realize they are smoking things like cadmium, lead, and arsenic?
When I read this list, the first thing that comes to my mind is – Why? Why would anyone smoke this? How do the tobacco companies get away with selling this product? How is this even legal? I am appalled that in 2008, people not only choose to pull this noxious smoke into their lungs, they actually pay a premium to do so, then we wonder why people get cancer, it just blows my mind. To make it even worse, quitsmokingsupport.com reports that: “… .additional toxicants are manufactured during the smoking process by the chemical reactions occurring in the glowing tip of the cigarette. The number is staggering: more than 4,000 hazardous compounds are present in the smoke that smokers draw into their lungs and which escapes into the environment between puffs.” Yes, that’s right FOUR THOUSAND. So if this doesn’t make you put your cigarette out and throw away any packets you might have, I am not sure what will.
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