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Cigarettes contain various toxic substances such as nicotine, benzene, Formaldehyde, ammonia, acetone, and many others.
In the age of telecommunications, internet, space technology and business, smoking has become one of the most serious health concerns for mankind. In a bid to curb this negative social phenomenon, the developed countries and recently, some of the developing ones, have introduced some restrictions on smoking such as higher excise duties on tobacco products, bans on smoking in public, including public transport and office premises. Another measure is the introduction of quit smoking programs and courses, such as online support for ex-smokers.
Among all negative influences of smoking on human health, nicotine addiction is perhaps the most harmful one. It is exactly the nicotine addiction that keeps you puffing cigarette after cigarette, day after day. Also, the nicotine addiction has helped tobacco tycoons build their billion-dollar empires at the expense of others’ health. In a way, the tobacco industry could be regarded as a stylized and specialized segment of the pharmaceutical industry. And thus, each cigarette is sophisticated means for the delivery of nicotine in a widely acceptable and appealing form. Recent research has demonstrated that the effects of nicotine on the organism are highly controversial and oftentimes, contradicting. Depending on the dosage, nicotine was found to act as a stimulant and at the same time, as a tranquilizer, psychic energizer, depressant, appetite reducer and surprisingly enough, as an energizer, or an anti-fatigue agent. Due to this unique blend, perhaps, smokers find satisfaction and pleasure in this harmful habit.
Researchers discovered that the cigarette smoke contains over fifty carcinogens and poisonous chemicals. Some of the most notable members of the bad company, led by the nicotine, are:
Benzene: it is a petrol additive obtained from coal and petroleum and known as carcinogen, also associated with leukemia.
Formaldehyde is a highly-poisonous and colorless fluid, used in the preservation of dead bodies. In addition to cancer, formaldehyde causes gastro-enteric and skin problems and is contained in the cigarette smoke.
Ammonia is… a toilet cleaner, employed by cigarette producers as a flavoring. This substance frees nicotine from tobacco and turns it into gas.
This deadly cocktail is well-complemented by acetone (nail-polish remover), tar (seventy percent of the substance is well-deposited inside the smoker’s lungs), carbon monoxide (Would anyone normally inhale car exhaust fumes, unless rolled in a cigarette?), and, last but not least, arsenic, which is a rat poison!

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