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The Tobacco Reference Guide
by David Moyer, MD.


Chapter 19 Tobacco ingredients, additives, and radioactivity

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Tobacco additives and their definitions. Ammonium sulfide: "a corrosive chemical,

contact with which can irritate nose, throat and lungs causing difficulty breathing."

Camphene: "exposure can irritate eyes, nose and throat." Eucalyptol: "a human

poison by ingestion."

Wall Street Journal, April 14, 1997, p. A6

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"A cigarette is like a little toxic waste dump on fire."

Stanton Glantz, Ph.D. The News Hour, PBS television, December 31, 1997

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In late 1997, Liggett tobacco company for the first time listed the ingredients on

cartons of its L&M cigarettes. Included along with tobacco was molasses, licorice

flavor, chocolate flavor, vanilla extract, valerian root extract, oil of an East Indian mint

called patchouli, cedarwood oil, menthol, sugar, high fructose corn syrup, phenylacetic

acid, hexanoic acid, isovalenic acid, 3-methylpantanoic acid, glycerol, and propylene

glycol.

San Francisco Examiner, December 4, 1997, p. A26

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The amount of benzopyrenes in cigarettes have been reduced by half since the

1960's. However, in one unspecified American cigarette, the amount of NNK

increased by 50% from 1978 to 1995.

10th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Beijing, 1997 (Nigel Gray)

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The disclosure of cigarette ingredients is required by law in three places in the world:

Canada, Thailand, and Massachusetts.

Multinational Monitor, July-August 1997, p. 29

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