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Yummy Ingredients!

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*Arsenic, found in rat poison

*Carbon Monoxide, a poison

*Hydrazine, used in jet and rocket fuels

*Formaldehyde, used to embalm dead bodies

*Ammonia, used for toilet-bowl cleaner

*Naphthalene, used in explosives, moth balls, and paint pigments

 

*Those are just some of the things found in tobacco.  Yummy, right? If you think thats bad, there are more than 4,700 more deadly toxic ingredients.  60 of which cause CANCER! The main cigarettes in cigarettes, though, is tobacco.  Nicotine is the drug in tobacco that causes addiction.

Nicotine

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Cancer-Causing Agents:                          Plus all this other stuff:

Nitrosamines                                                               Acetone: Nail Polish Remover
Crysenes                                                                             Acetic Acid: Vinegar
Cadmium                                                                   Ammonia: Floor /Toilet Cleaner
Benzo(a)pyrene                                                                  Arsenic: Poison
Polonium 210                                                                           Benzene
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)             Butane: Lighter Fluid
Nickel                                                                             Cadmium: NiCad Batteries
DibenzAcidine                                                       Carbon Monoxide: Car Exhaust Fumes
B-Napthylamine                                                           Cyanide: Metabolic Poison
Urethane                                                                       Chloroform: Anesthetic
N.Nitrosonornicotine                                                 DDT/Dieldrin: Insecticides
Toluidine                                                                          Ethanol: Alcohol
Metals                                                  Formaldehyde: Preserver (Body, Tissue and Fabric)
Aluminum                                                                         Hexamine: Barbecue Lighter
Beryllium                                                                          Methane: Swamp Gas
Zinc                                                                                    Methanol: Rocket Fuel
Magnesium                                                                      Napthalene: Mothballs
Mercury                                                                    Nicotine: Insecticide, Addictive Drug
Gold                                                                            Nitrobenzene: Gasoline Additive
Silicon                                                                   Nitrous Oxide Phenols : Disinfectant
Silver                                                                              Stearic Acid: CandleWax
Titanium                                                                        Toluene: Industrial Solvent
Lead                                                                                 Vinyl Chloride: Makes PVC
Copper