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 3 - What's in Cigarette Smoke?

 

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Cigarette smoke is very harmful

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Formaldehyde - used as an embalming fluid

Tar - used in road surfaces

Hydrogen cyanide - used as a poison in gas chambers

Cigarette smoke contains around 4,000 chemicals, many of which are known to be highly poisonous and very harmful - over 40 are known to cause cancer.  The chemicals found in a cigarette include;
  Carbon Monoxide
poisonous gas in car exhausts
Tar
used in road surfaces
Nicotine
used in pesticides
Acetone
used in paint stripper
Ammonia
used in cleaning agents
Arsenic
used in ant killer
Benzene
found in petrol fumes
Butane
used in lighter fuel
Formaldehyde
used as an embalming fluid
Hydrogen cyanide
used as a poison in gas chambers
Methanol
used in rocket fuel
Toluene
used as an industrial solvent
DDT
used as an insecticide
Radon
is a radioactive gas
Polonium
present in radioactive fallout
1.Introduction
2.The Facts
3.The Smoke
4.Passive Smoking
5.The Environment

 

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