You might experience a dip in your mood, too. Smoking actually lowers your serotonin levels—those essential brain chemicals responsible for making you feel good.
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Think of cigarette smoke as a toxic cocktail of various poisons.
From what we currently understand, cigarette smoke is a lethal mixture containing roughly
4,000 different chemicals. Some examples include:
sixty-nine specific carcinogens, such as arsenic, benzene, cadmium, formaldehyde, and radioactive polonium-210. other hazardous substances like hydrogen cyanide,
ammonia and carbon monoxide, which are known to trigger heart disease or other serious medical issues.
Masking the sight and smell of smoke
Internal records from the tobacco industry—which finally hit the web due to legal battles here in the United States—show that they specifically used additives to make second-hand smoke less noticeable and irritating.
Certain additives were designed to make the smoke less visible, while others were meant to hide the scent, utilizing things like nutmeg oil, coffee extract, cinnamon, or vanilla.Burning
Burning most of the dangerous chemicals in tobacco smoke are formed through the many chemical reactions that occur as the cigarette burns.
When organic materials like tobacco leaves burn, they produce polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Additionally, the sugars added to the cigarettes turn into formaldehyde once they are ignited.
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At its core, smoking is a nicotine addiction.
When you're dealing with an addiction, your thinking isn't exactly rational anymore.Additives
Hundreds of chemicals are added to cigarettes in order to improve the flavor and make them easier to inhale. This includes the inclusion of ammonia, an irritating gas that actually ramps up the addictive pull of the nicotine.(image)[/IMG]
Nicotine as a drug
In terms of dependency, nicotine works much like heroin or cocaine. It's just as difficult to break free from as those "harder" drugs.
As a stimulant, nicotine raises your heart rate and impacts various systems throughout your brain and body. That "high" people seek comes from nicotine triggering the release of dopamine in the brain – a chemical linked to feelings of pleasure.The sheer volume of the
599 additives that the US government for use in the manufacture of cigarettes is something every smoker should see. Submitted by the five major American cigarette companies to the Dept. of Health and Human Services in April of 1994, this massive list of components was kept hidden from the public for a very long time.
The tobacco companies involved in reporting this data were:
American Tobacco Company
Brown & Williamson
Liggett Group, Inc.
Philip Morris Inc.
R.J. Reynolds
Tobacco company while these ingredients are approved as additives for foods, they weren't ever tested for what happens when they are burned. It is the combustion of these substances that alters their properties, typically making them much more dangerous. The act of burning a cigarette creates over 4,000 chemical compounds, many of which are highly toxic or carcinogenic.
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physical addiction to nicotine — that incredibly frustrating and overwhelming compulsion to smoke, regardless of how inconvenient it may be.
psychological dependence — that nagging feeling that you simply can't handle life without a cigarette, or the fear that you'll never actually have fun again once you quit.
habit — the automatic reflex where you reach for a light the second you walk into a bar or try to decompress after a grueling workday. (image)[/IMG]
Quitting smoking is actually quite simple..."I've done it 100 times!" — Mark Twain
So, what exactly is
the Nitch? The Nitch is just
NICOTINE ITCH And ITCH stands for:
Irritating Time Consuming Controlling
Horrible Basically, to keep things from smelling like a chimney, manufacturers add all sorts of stuff to cigarettes. Masking most of the dangerous chemicals in tobacco smoke are formed through the many chemical reactions that occur as the cigarette burns, creating about 4,000 different chemicals within a single cigarette.cancer-causing chemicals• Tar - a cocktail of nasty chemicals
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Arsenic - commonly used in wood preservatives
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Benzene - an industrial solvent derived from crude oil
• Cadmium - often found in batteries
• Formaldehyde - used in paint production and mortuaries
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Polonium-210 - a substance that is highly radioactive
• Chromium - used in making alloys, paints, and dyes
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1,3-Butadiene - utilized in rubber manufacturing
• Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons - a group of hazardous chemicals that damage DNA
• Nitrosamines - another set of DNA-damaging chemicals
• Acrolein - which was previously used as a chemical weapon
• Other chemicals
Back in the day, they kept all this under wraps, but nowadays, with everything being so transparent, the truth is plain as day.🙂 Back in 2001, estimates suggested that 5,400 young Americans would lose a middle-aged father and 1,770 would lose a middle-aged mother because of tobacco smoking. And that is why :
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Driven by both legislation and public outcry, the US government has implemented some of the strictest anti-smoking regulations in the country. The latest updates went into full effect on July 1, 2006.
These updated laws are designed to benefit customers, employees and smokers who are trying to kick the habit, ultimately creating a better atmosphere for everyone.
Welcome to a cleaner, healthier United States.Anyone caught smoking in the newly designated smoke-free zones could face immediate fines of $150.
Business owners may also face court-ordered fines.
Under the new tobacco regulations that started on December 31, 2005, any minor under the age of 18 who lies about their age to buy smoking products is committing an offense and could face penalties as high as $1,500.(image)[/IMG]
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