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The Tobacco Reference Guide
by David Moyer, MD.


Chapter 19 Tobacco ingredients, additives, and radioactivity

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There are 4000 different chemicals in cigarette smoke, including 43 that meet the

stringent criteria for listing as known carcinogens.

Health Benefits of Smoking Cessation, 1990 Surgeon General report

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Among chemicals on the top-secret list of about 700 additives to cigarettes reported

to the US government are 13 not allowed in food (US FDA) and 5 designated as

hazardous (US EPA). Most of the additives have not been scientifically investigated.

National Public Radio report, April 1994

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Two of the 700 additives in cigarettes are sclareol, which causes seizures in

laboratory rats, and ethylfuroate, which was investigated in the 1930's as a possible

chemical warfare agent.

American Medical News, May 2, 1994

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A two pack a day smoker takes 400 puffs a day and inhales 1000 milligrams (one

gram) of tar. This is 150,000 puffs and a quart of thick brown gooey carcinogenic tar

inhaled into the lungs each year.

American Cancer Society, 1988

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Saccharin has received much attention as carcinogen, but the carcinogenic potency

of benzopyrene in tobacco smoke is 50,000 times greater than that of saccharin.

North Carolina Medical Journal, January 1995, p. 5

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