* The components of cigarettes are tobacco, nicotine, tar, arsenic, acetone, additives and agents of flavor and texture.
* The burning lit cigarette produces smoke which is what many experts denominate a “veritable chemical factory”
* The burning of a cigarette causes the formation of many toxic substances.
* 4000 substances are present in cigarette smoke
* More than 40 ingredients are carcinogenic.
* Lighting a cigarette leads to the formation of benzene, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, hydrogen cyanide, ammonia and mercury and metals including lead, mercury and chromium.
* When a smoker smokes a cigarette, all chemicals are mixed and form a sticky tar.
* Cadmium is a heavy metal that is 70 years to evacuate the body.
Never leave a cigarette burn in an ashtray because the substances released into the smoke is more dangerous than those that are inhaled.
What are the effects of nicotine?
* Nicotine is not carcinogenic.
* Nicotine makes smokers addicted to tobacco and secondarily to expose dozens of toxic and carcinogenic.
* It stimulates the nervous system and causes a strong dependence close or even superior to that produced by heroin and cocaine.
* Nicotine takes about 8 seconds to reach the brain and cause a flash effect, very rapidly, causing the sensation of pleasure and relaxation.
* Nicotine affects the brain and leads to reduced stress, feeling of having less need to eat or a stimulating effect.
* Nicotine causes adverse cardiovascular effects by increasing heart rate.
* Nicotine decreases the diameter of the arteries supplying the hands and feet causing a drop in temperature.
* Nicotine occurs naturally in tobacco and its concentration varies depending on the part of the plant. * We find the form of suspended particles in the smoke.
Tar
* The tar present in tobacco smoke is composed of many highly carcinogenic chemicals including oil, benzene, inorganic compounds.
* The tars are the main substance responsible for smoking-related cancers.
* The tar from the burning cigarette and stick to the walls of the mouth, pharynx and bronchi.
* A smoker of a pack a day inhales 250 ml of tar per year in his lungs, the equivalent of two pots of yoghurt.
Carbon monoxide, CO
* Carbon monoxide binds to hemoglobin in red blood cells and reduces the ability of red blood cells carry oxygen to tissues.
* It promotes the onset of hypoxia, a decrease of red blood cells in blood increased cardiovascular risk due to an increase in heart rate to rise to the onset of shortness of breath, cough and of increased cardiovascular risk.
* Carbon monoxide similar to that emitted by the exhaust from cars.
* Smokers who depend heavily on their cigarettes fix more CO to hemoglobin
* 4 to 6 hours are necessary to remove carbon monoxide in the blood.
Additives
* Additives are substances added to tobacco in cigarettes.
* Some additives emit hazardous components during combustion.
Irritants
* The acetone, phenols and hydrogen cyanide are irritants who assault the walls of the bronchi, nose and eyes.
* Hydrogen cyanide is one of the most toxic products found in tobacco smoke.
Cigars
* The cigarette is more toxic than cigarette
* The smoke is not filtered
* The nicotine content varies from 1 to 20 according cigars
* The tobacco leaf around it prevents the evaporation of substances produced by combustion
* The risk of lung cancer, cardiovascular disease increases with the number of cigars smoked
* The risk of lung cancer is multiplied by 3 because cigar smokers inhale deeply smoke cigar
* The risk of developing cancer of the mouth, larynx and pharynx is multiplied by 4 compared to a non-smoking because the smoker for cigar storage long minutes the smoke in his mouth.
* The tobacco of the cigar is richer in NNN, Nitrosonomicotine highly carcinogenic (INPES, May 2006 “deadly tobacco in all its forms”)
Light cigarettes
* Many experts have highlighted the toxicity of cigarette lighter or lights: this type of smoking cigarettes causes the same risks as smoking cigarettes.
* The “light” cigarettes are very harmful and toxic, because they involve a different type of lung cancer.
* The filter present in these cigarettes is composed of small holes that allow air to enter and let the smoke. But these holes, most often blocked by fingers or mouth, no longer fulfill their function to give the cigarettes the term “light”.
* To satisfy his craving for nicotine, a smoker of light cigarettes tend to smoke more, but also to increase the number and intensity of their puffs.
The pharmacological addiction to nicotine leads smokers of light cigarettes to inhale more deeply outlining the alveoli and small airways to high levels of toxic compounds in the smoke and cause the formation of a malignant tumor type adenocarcinoma.
The bidies
* The cigarettes are bidies Indian crafts including tobacco rolled in leaves of eucalyptus.
* The bidies produce 3 times more carbon monoxide and nicotine and 5 times more tar than regular cigarettes.
* The lack of filter and the lack of porosity of leaves used to wrap the tobacco cause the smoker to inhale more often and more deeply how to avoid going out.
* Studies have shown that the risk of cancer of the lung, mouth, esophagus, stomach were higher than those of a non-smoker.
* There are also 3 times more risk of myocardial infarction, and 4 times greater risk of chronic bronchitis (source: INPES, National Institute of Prevention and Health Education in May 2006 “Tobacco, Deadly in any forms “)
Cigars
Rolling tobacco
Higher tobacco prices have led to increased consumption of rolling tobacco. The vast majority of cigarette smokers rolled ignores the risks of rolling tobacco.
* The rolling tobacco is four times more harmful than regular cigarettes
* The rolling tobacco is a highly toxic releases more cancer-causing compounds more toxic than cigarettes.
* It contains 4 to 6 times more nicotine and tar
* He has no filter.
* The October, French Office of Tobacco Prevention, even mentions the word “scandal of rolling tobacco”