Chemical Facts

Ever wonder why they don't list the ingredients on the side of a pack of cigarettes? Maybe because it’s a lot more than just tobacco. Industry documents mention 599 other ingredients added in the manufacturing process. Stuff like:

  1. Ammonia: Excellent for cleaning floors and toilets
  2. Arsenic: Used in rat poisons
  3. Butane: AKA lighter fluid
  4. Carbon Monoxide: Also found in car exhaust
  5. Cadmium: Used in batteries
  6. Cyanide: Deadly poison
  7. DDT: A banned insecticide
  8. Ethyl Furoate: Causes liver damage in animals
  9. Formaldehyde: Used to preserve dead stuff in labs
  10. Hydrazine: Rocket fuel
  11. Hydrogen Cyanide: Rat poison
  12. Lead: Ever heard of lead poisoning?
  13. Methoprene: Insecticide
  14. Methyl isocyanate: An accidental leak of this stuff killed 2,000 people in Bhopal, India in 1984
  15. Napthalene: Ingredient in mothballs
  16. Polonium: Cancer-causing radioactive element
  17. Tar: The sticky goo used on roads

Oh, and at least 43 of the ingredients are proven to cause cancer. You can see all 599 at: http://www.smokefreedom.net/articles/ingredients.htm

There are more than 4,000 chemicals in secondhand smoke; more than 250 are known to be toxic, and 69 cause cancer.