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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 19 Tobacco ingredients, additives, and radioactivity |
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| | The three classes of carcinogens in tobacco smoke are nitrosamines (including |
| | NNK), polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) including benzopyrene, and |
| | aromatic amines. Children of mothers who smoke have higher blood levels of PAH |
| | than children of nonsmoking mothers. |
| | Journal of the National Cancer Institute, September 21, 1994, p. 1369 |
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| | In 1990, Perrier halted its bottle water operation when traces of benzene were found. |
| | But there is more benzene in every pack of cigarettes than in hundreds of the |
| | contaminated Perrier water bottles. |
| | Yale magazine, March 1991, p. 8 (Kenneth Warner) |
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| | In 1990, the FDA and EPA ordered Perrier water removed from the market when it |
| | was discovered to be contaminated with benzene. Ironically, benzene contained in a |
| | pack of cigarettes was up to 2000 times more than in each Perrier bottle. |
| | Ashes to Ashes, p. 708 |
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| | In 1988, the US government shut down all Chilean grape imports because of a small |
| | amount of cyanide found in two grapes. But there is ten times more cyanide in every |
| | puff from a cigarette than was found in the two Chilean grapes. |
| | Yale magazine, March 1991, p. 8 (Kenneth Warner), and Nicotine Addiction, p. 129 |
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| | Other chemicals identified in cigarette smoke are carbonyl sulfide, toluene, acrolein, |
| | hydrazine, methyl chloride, 1, 3-butadiene, acetic acid, and formic acid. |
| | World Smoking and Health No. 1, 1993, p. 9 |
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