Chapter 19 Tobacco ingredients, additives, and radioactivity

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Each tin of snuff delivers as much nicotine as 30 to 40 cigarettes. There is a lethal

dose of nicotine in each can of spit tobacco, as well as lead (nerve poison),

embalming fluid (formaldehyde), and radioactive particles.

Quitting Spit, National Cancer Institute, 1991, p. 5

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Kretek, or clove cigarettes from Indonesia, are composed of cloves (up to 40%) and

dark tobaccos. The local anesthetic in cloves, eugenol, permits the inhalation of the

harsh smoke from the sun-cured dark tobaccos.

Nicotine Addiction, p. 15

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Ammonia, an "impact booster" additive to cigarettes, changes the acidity of tobacco

and produces free nicotine so that nearly twice the usual amount gets into a smoker's

bloodstream.

New York Times, June 22, 1994, pp. A1 and C20

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Tar is the sticky brown substance condensing out of tobacco smoke, and is

composed of many chemicals.

Tobacco Control Fact Sheet 3, International Union Against Cancer, 1996

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"Tar" in cigarettes consists primarily of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons such as

benzopyrene, an exceedingly potent carcinogen.

Pharmacological Basics of Therapeutics, Goodman and Gilman, 1990 edition, p.

545

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