Why are so many unnecessary chemicals put into Cigarettes? - General

I am told time over time "Cigarettes have over 4,000 deadly chemicals." If so, why do they have all these unnecessary chemicals in it? Look at all the ad's about how 'Cigarettes affect you' and listen to what chemicals they list. Why would you have those things in a cigarette? I am surprised it was passed as 'Safe for the General Public.'

Preservatives.

Tastes good.

It passed "Safe for General Public" many many years ago when people didn't know how much shit they put in cigarettes.

I think those pipes were cool, no need to use all those chemicals, and make you look smart. [img]http://www.glass-pipes-water-bongs.com/foto/bigw/74-402---sherlock-glass-smoking-pipe.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=Aedan1;21666687]I think those pipes were cool, no need to use all those chemicals, and make you look smart. [img]http://www.glass-pipes-water-bongs.com/foto/bigw/74-402---sherlock-glass-smoking-pipe.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] I think thats a funny shaped weed pipe. I don't think tobacco pipes have a carb... but I agree. Pipes make you look smarter.

There are 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.

[QUOTE=Dr.Strangelove;21666722]There are 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.[/QUOTE] But there's over 4,000 [b]deadly[/b] chemicals in Cigarettes. :ohdear:

But yea, Preservatives and shit to make it stay alight is my guess.

That's just anti-smoking propaganda from tax payer money, the ammount of those chemicals are so small, and if they would put so much expensive chemicals in there they would pay more.

[QUOTE=Dr.Strangelove;21666722]There are 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.[/QUOTE] Loving your generalisation. [editline]11:12AM[/editline] [QUOTE=werner;21666776]That's just anti-smoking propaganda from tax payer money, the ammount of those chemicals are so small, and if they would put so much expensive chemicals in there they would pay more.[/QUOTE] [quote]There are more than 4,000 ingredients in a cigarette other than tobacco. Common additives include yeast, wine, caffeine, beeswax and chocolate. Here are some other ingredients: Ammonia: Household cleaner Angelica root extract: Known to cause cancer in animals Arsenic: Used in rat poisons Benzene: Used in making dyes, synthetic rubber Butane: Gas; used in lighter fluid Carbon monoxide: Poisonous gas Cadmium: Used in batteries Cyanide: Deadly poison DDT: A banned insecticide Ethyl Furoate: Causes liver damage in animals Lead: Poisonous in high doses Formaldehiyde: Used to preserve dead specimens Methoprene: Insecticide Megastigmatrienone: Chemical naturally found in grapefruit juice Maltitol: Sweetener for diabetics Napthalene: Ingredient in mothballs Methyl isocyanate: Its accidental release killed 2000 people in Bhopal, India in 1984 Polonium: Cancer-causing radioactive element[/quote]

If I ever take up smoking, it'll be a pipe. :smug: Smoking fags isn't my thing.

Yes, this is why the Native Americans didn't get cancer.

[QUOTE=Kamern;21666781] Common additives include yeast, [b]wine[/b], caffeine, beeswax and [b]chocolate.[/b] [editline]11:12AM[/editline][/QUOTE] What the shit? Chocolate?

Fuck guys have you heard about this chlorine shit they used in the war? FUCK man! that shit is in swimming pool. All of you get the fuck out of them swimming pools yall. This shit kills you man. There is also motherfucking di-hydrogen mono-oxide in that shit. The stuff kills you man.

[img]http://www.zigsam.at/l9/B_Cig/CamelNaturalFl10mg-20fAT2007.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.giantrobot.com/blogs/eric/uploaded_images/nas_yellow-733756.jpg[/img] yeah.

Make up your own concoction.

[QUOTE=Aedan1;21666752]But there's over 4,000 [b]deadly[/b] chemicals in Cigarettes. :ohdear:[/QUOTE] Most of them are addictive, yet people start smoking while knowing the dangers :frown:

I'm on these at the moment. As far as I know, cigars & cigarillos are 100% tobacco leaf. [img]http://www.simplycigars.co.uk/simplycom/images/cafe_creme_filter.jpg[/img]

That's a-fucking-lot. I wonder how they can justify all of those chemicals.

[QUOTE=Within;21666860]That's a-fucking-lot. I wonder how they can justify all of those chemicals.[/QUOTE] Well there are actually only 443 of those 4,000 that are actually potentially deadly.

I just had an experiment about radiation and we had to compare tobacco to the normal background radiation. Showed that tobacco somehow accumulates Uran.

Weird that one 94 year old guy who I know started smoking back when he was 7 is still alive and rocking.

[QUOTE=werner;21667014]Weird that one 94 year old guy who I know started smoking back when he was 7 is still alive and rocking.[/QUOTE] Weird that 20 year old dude I knew when I worked in a hospital started smoking in 8th grade and died two weeks later by lung cancer. I had to transport him down to the morgue. Saddest moment of my life. He told me that he wanted to try to go to college when he beats the cancer. I was 21 that time.

I probably quit next year because I kinda on short on money then, but I don't know anyone close who have had lung cancer. I would quit too if someone close would die.

[QUOTE=werner;21667083]I probably quit next year because I kinda on short on money then, but I don't know anyone close who have had lung cancer. I would quit too if someone close would die.[/QUOTE] Well, you could be the cause of their death, second hand smoke and all.

[QUOTE=Kamern;21667090]Well, you could be the cause of their death, second hand smoke and all.[/QUOTE] I smoke like 5-10 a day and when I am with other smokers or alone outside. It's like I am not smoking in a closet with some non smoker.

[img]http://elitechoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/cigar.jpg[/img] these all the way!

It's not that they can control it that much, basically it's the tobacco (which is a leaf, so that contains also a shitload of stuff, it's not like it's artificially made or something, it's a plant) that starts burning and that creates all kinds of new stuff. Together with the paper of the cigarette that burns, which is paper that has been bleached & processed etc. etc so that also contributes...

[quote]Ammonia: Household cleaner Angelica root extract: Known to cause cancer in animals Arsenic: Used in rat poisons Benzene: Used in making dyes, synthetic rubber Butane: Gas; used in lighter fluid Carbon monoxide: Poisonous gas Cadmium: Used in batteries Cyanide: Deadly poison DDT: A banned insecticide Ethyl Furoate: Causes liver damage in animals Lead: Poisonous in high doses Formaldehiyde: Used to preserve dead specimens Methoprene: Insecticide Megastigmatrienone: Chemical naturally found in grapefruit juice Maltitol: Sweetener for diabetics Napthalene: Ingredient in mothballs Methyl isocyanate: Its accidental release killed 2000 people in Bhopal, India in 1984 Polonium: Cancer-causing radioactive element[/quote] This is extremely misleading.