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Human sweat contains urea and ammonia. Urea is added to cigarettes.

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Source 1:

Covington, and Burling. "Summary Of Data On Urea." Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, 17 Apr. 1986. Excerpt.

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/fjk51a00/pdf

Source 2:

Pankow, JF, et al. "Conversion of nicotine in tobacco smoke to its volatile and available free-base form through the action of gaseous ammonia." American Chemical Society. 1997. 31(8): 2428-2433.

http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=2784832

Source 3:

Huang, CT, et al. "Uric acid and urea in human sweat." Chinese Journal of Physiology, 30 Sept. 2002. 45(3): 109-15.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12817713&dopt=Abstract

Source 4:

Foster, K.G. "Composition of the Secretion from the Eccrine Sweat Glands of the Cat's Foot Pad." The Journal of Physiology, 1966. 184(1): 106-09.

http://jp.physoc.org/content/184/1/106.full.pdf+html

Source 5:

"Cigarette Ingredients. R.J. Reynolds List of Ingredients." R.J. Reynolds. 2013. Web.

http://www.rjrt.com/tobaccoingredients.aspx

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