- Recipe for a Cigarette
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Recipe for a Cigarette
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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:
Ammonia : Household cleaner
Angelica root extract : Known to cause cancer in animals
Arsenic : Used in rat poisons
Benzene: Used in making dyes, synthetic rubber
Butane : Gas; used in lighter fluid
Carbon monoxide : Poisonous gas
Cadmium: Used in batteries
Cyanide: Deadly poison
DDT: A banned insecticide
Ethyl Furoate : Causes liver damage in animals
Lead: Poisonous in high doses
Formaldehiyde : Used to preserve dead specimens
Methoprene: Insecticide
Megastigmatrienone: Chemical naturally found in grapefruit juice
Maltitol : Sweetener for diabetics
Napthalene : Ingredient in mothballs
Methyl isocyanate : Its accidental release killed 2000 people in Bhopal, India in 1984
Polonium : Cancer-causing radioactive element
Quit Smoking and then ...
Time from your last cigarette:
- 20 Minutes later:
- Your pulse rate and blood pressure drop to the levels
they were before you started smoking.
- Your pulse rate and blood pressure drop to the levels
- 10 Hours Later:
- The levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide in your blood return to normal.
- 3 Days later:
- Your lung capacity begins to increase.
- 4 years Later:
- You will reduce your risk of a heart attack to that of a non-smoker
- 10 years later:
- You will reduce your chances of dying of lung cancer to that of a non-smoker.
Give yourself a break!
Study Finds N.Y. Smoking Ban Helping
Bar and restaurant workers in New York are suffering fewer sore throats and runny noses since the state's workplace smoking ban went into effect, health officials reported. The reduction is linked to the dramatic decline in employees' exposure to second-hand smoke, according to findings published in the August issue of Tobacco Control, a public health journal.
· For a news report on the findings, visit:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=984228&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
· To view the abstract and for information on purchasing the article, visit: http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/14/4/236