Cigarette Contents

Cigarette contents

1. Tobacco (different tobacco mixes based on cigarettes brand name, some chemical addons for tobacco).
2. Cigarette Filter (Decreasing amount of dangerous components in tobacco smoking). Improves taste of tobacco smoke but negligible effect for saving of your health.
3. Special Paper (chemically processed for rapid combustion.

Cigarette Smoke Contents

In the cigarette near 4000 of dangerous components for human body. Here is nicotine and other poisons are in cigarettes.

1. Nicotine. Well known poison. 1 gm of nicotine killing the horse. But it just well known poison, in the tobacco smoke more 4000 of less known poisions (including rat poison and insects poison),

2. Acetone, Cyanide, Aluminum, Ammonia, Azsenic, Benzine, Butane, Cadmium, Carbon Monoxide, Ethenol, Formaldehyde, Methanol

3. Some of this chemicals are well known carcinogens (it cancer-causing agents – like smoking lung cancer).

4. Lead – very dangerous for childrens and Adult with high level of lead in blood can have high blood pressure (hypertension).

5. Copper – High levels of copper in human body can cause kidney disease.

6. Mercury - affect human brain – tiredness, sleeplessness, tremors & damage to the nerves in the legs and arms.

7. Acetone – This component can cause headaches and dizziness.

8. Ammonia – can cause permanent effects on eyes, nose, lungs. Also airways inflammation.

9. Arsenic – can cause lung cancer or smoking lung cancer.

10. Butane can cause vomiting, nausea, vomiting or even coma!

11. Carbon Monoxide – well known ‘car killer’, which kill people who locks themselve in garage with running car.

12. DDT – banned for usage in usa since 1973.

13. Formaldehyde: Inhalation causes eye, nose and throat irritation. High levels of that component can cause wheezing, coughing, chest pain and even bronchitis.

14. Hydrogen Cyanide – rat/mouse poison!

This is not all cigarette contents, here is much more chemicals – actually near 3000. And all this goes directly to your lungs!

More info at What poisons are in cigarettes and at Cigarettes Facts.