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Harmful chemicals come in sticks you can smoke, whether it’s cigarettes or e-cigs. Scroll down to know more.

Tobacco contains chemicals that change your dna.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A Report of the Surgeon General: How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: What It Means to You. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2010.

Ammonia found in cigarettes is also found in dog pee and used in household cleaners.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US); National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (US); Office on Smoking and Health (US). How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking-Attributable Disease: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta (GA): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US); 2010. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53017/ [accessed 2020 May 9]

E-cigarettes contain chemicals found in tobacco products.

https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products/health-information/chemicals-tobacco-products-and-your-health [accessed 2020 May 9].

Which of these chemicals is not in tobacco smoke?

Over 250 of the chemicals in tobacco are toxic.

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Cigarette smoke contains over
7,000
Chemicals.

The chemicals in tobacco prevent your body from delivering blood flow and oxygen to your muscles.

The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General. Office of the Surgeon General (US); Office on Smoking and Health (US). Atlanta (GA): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2004)

The cigarette manufacturing process releases thousands of toxic chemicals into the environment.

Slaughter, Elli, Richard M. Gersberg, Kayo Watanabe, John Rudolph, Chris Stransky, and Thomas E. Novotny. “Toxicity of Cigarette Butts, and Their Chemical Components, to Marine and Freshwater Fish.” Tobacco Control. U.S. National Library of Medicine. National Institutes of Health, 20 May 2011. Web. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3088407/

Arsenic used in rat poison is also in cigarette smoke.

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