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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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