2006-10-09 04:58:14 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
There's about 4000 ingredients. They don't have the room so they don't have to.
2006-10-09 05:06:06 · answer #1 · answered by drdansir2002 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they put the ingredients on the box, they would not recruit as many new smokers.
It's sad when someone states: It's just tobacco leaves.
There are chemicals and compounds that share some of the same components that of crack!!! Modern cigarettes resemble only mere traces of what real tobacco cigarettes used to. Sadly, the taxes collected on cigarettes and other tobacco products in the US are plenty and banning them would cut revenues. Tobacco products have to slowly diminish in our society for everything to work out without leaving a hole somewhere. Cutting cold turkey would leave no room for a replacement in funds. Besides, it would just create a blackmarket for tobacco products and inside that, there is no control. People have to change before any kind of ban could be instilled, and for that to happen- people need to be educated.
2006-10-09 05:19:50 · answer #2 · answered by punchy333 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One word - MONEY !!
The tobacco companies have paid HUGE amounts of money... directly & through their lobbyists to ensure that the US Congress and State Governments never seem to get around to generating a law to force the Tobacco Companies to list their "ingredients".
I guess it looks BAD to list some of the items... arsenic, formaldhyde, etc....
I took a quick look at MY alcohol supplies:
1) Liquor has NO ingredients listed, nor "nutritional" information.
2) Wine is the same... but notes whether of not in includes "sulfides".
3) My Beer has "nutritional" information - calories and carbs, but no specific ingredients.
I recall that Budwieser likes TELLING customers on the can that it's rice, grain, hops, water !! Duh... Beer is Beer !!
I noted another responder commented about some foods listing "spices" or such as a means of protecting their formulae... I wonder what law / laws cover that ??
You HAVE to note IF there are peanut or nut oils... wheat... and other severe allergens...
I'm a smoker... KIDS... PLEASE DON'T START !!
2006-10-09 05:20:08 · answer #3 · answered by mariner31 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two reasons.
1. The tobacco lobby is very powerful and it protects its self.
2. A previous responder said that there is only tobacco leaves, which is true, however those tobacco leaves contain upwards to 4000 chemical compounds.
The cigarette packages would have to be very large to list them all
2006-10-09 05:10:00 · answer #4 · answered by ijcoffin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They pay a lot of money NOT to put the list of ingredients on otherwise you will find out that they put in things like battery acid for flavor, ammonia to make you more addicted quicker and embalming fluid to keep it fresh.
2006-10-09 05:06:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
alcohol companies do not put ingredients on the label
The reasoning is that they have protected their 'formulas' for flavor. Even food labels will say 'spices' without labeling what they are.
2006-10-09 05:00:18 · answer #6 · answered by hichefheidi 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They pay way more taxes than alcohol companies. They rule. They can get away with stuff like "Smoking may cause cancer" It is almost said all in one sentence but not quite. Marketing!
2006-10-09 05:06:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
b/c ppl wouldn't smoke if they knew what was really in it:
there are also 599 different ingredients in a cig.
here are a few things:
ammonia-toilet cleaner
methanol-rocket fuel
arsenic-poison
methane-sewer gas
acetic acid-vinegar
butane-lighter fluid
cadmium-batteries
stearic acid-candle wax
hexamine- BBQ lighter
toluene-industrial solvent
nicotine-insecticide
2006-10-09 05:12:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have a lot of clout and powerful lobbyists. To have the warning put on the box or package years ago was their limit. Lots of money in tobacco and health be damned. My life span has been shortened by their cancer sticks.
2006-10-09 05:02:10 · answer #9 · answered by beez 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
those are somewhat scare tactic statements to objective and shop people from smoking... I applaud them for that, although that's somewhat overdone... in basic terms think of of the risky factors in charcoal... We prepare dinner with it, saturate our nutrition with the smoke and breathe all of it in collectively as cooking... no person ever mentions something approximately that... and a superb form of of those risky factors modern in tobacco are additionally modern in charcoal...
2016-12-16 04:45:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋