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Smoke constituents
Introduction
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services[1], the following carcinogens are found in cigarette smoke:
- Chemical
- Amount (per cigarette)
- Acetaldehyde
- 980 micrograms to 1.37 milligrams
- Acrylonitrile
- formerly 1 to 2 milligrams. This product was used as a fumigant in tobacco. Its use has since been discontinued.
- 4-Aminobiphenyl
- 0.2 to 23 nanograms per cigarette
- o-Anisidine Hydrochloride
- unknown
- Arsenic
- unknown
- Benzene
- 5.9 to 75 micrograms
- Beryllium
- 0.5 nanograms
- 1,3-Butadiene
- 152 to 400 micrograms
- Cadmium
- 1.7 micrograms
- 1,1-Dimethylhydrazine
- unknown
- Ethylene oxide
- unknown
- Formaldehyde
- unknown
- Furan
- unknown
- Heterocyclic amines
- unknown
- Hydrazine
- 32 micrograms
- Isoprene
- 3.1 milligrams
- Lead
- unknown
- 2-Naphthylamine
- 1.5 to 35 nanograms
- Nitromethane
- unknown
- N-Nitrosodi-n-Butylamine
- 3 nanograms
- N-Nitrosodiethanolamine
- 24 to 36 nanograms
- N-Nitrosodiethylamine
- up to 8.3 nanograms
- N-Nitrosodimethylamine
- 5.7 to 43 nanograms
- N-Nitrosodi-n-Propylamine
- 1 nanogram
- 4-(N-Nitrosomethylamino)-1-(3-Pyridyl)-1-Butanone
- up to 4.2 micrograms
- N-Nitrosonornicotine
- 14 micrograms
- N-Nitrosopiperidine
- unknown
- N-Nitrosopyrrolidine
- 113 nanograms
- N-Nitrososarcosine
- 22 to 460 nanograms
- Polonium-210
- variable, depending on soil and fertilizer used to grow tobacco[2][3]
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
- 28 to 100 milligrams
- o-Toluidine
- 32 nanograms
- Vinyl chloride
- 5.6 to 27 nanograms
References
References
- ↑ “11th Report on Carcinogens by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services”. Retrieved 2006-10-27.
- ↑ “Radioactive Polonium-210 found in Tobacco”. American Computer Scientists Association Inc. 2002. Retrieved 2007-08-20. Unknown parameter
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