Smoking

Cigarette smokers are 20 times more likely to develop lung cancer than non-smokers.

One cigarette company biologically engineered tobacco plants to have twice the normal level of nicotine.

Nicotine reaches the brain 10-20 seconds after smoke is inhaled.

Cigarette smoke contains about 7,000 chemicals.

599 additives are on the composite list released to the government in 1994 by tobacco companies of what may be added to cigarettes. This list includes all ingredients that are used although it does not tell which companies they are used by or which brands they are used in. 2-Naphthylamine, 4-Aminobiphenyl, Benzene, Vinyl Chloride, Ethylene Oxide, Arsenic, Beryllium, Nickel, Chromium (only hexavalent), Cadmium, and Polonium-210 are human carcinogens found in tobacco smoke.

2-Naphthylamine, 4-Aminobiphenyl, Benzene, Vinyl Chloride, Ethylene Oxide, Arsenic, Beryllium, Nickel, Chromium (only hexavalent), Cadmium, and Polonium-210 are human carcinogens found in tobacco smoke.

Nicotine is in tobacco smoke.

Nicotine is addictive.

Ammonia is in tobacco smoke. It's also used to clean toilets.