if cigarettes contain tobacco which is from a plant,then where the **** do all the chemicals come from an tar etc??!!!and why do they add these??
2006-12-29 10:42:37 · 10 answers · asked by xloux 3 in Health ➔ Other - Health
Some chemicals are added during the processing of the tobacco leaves, there is also pesticides. And then there is stuff that is naturally IN the leaf itself (since everything on earth is made up of different chemicals! :) There is also the burning of the cigarette which changes a lot of the chemicals to other chemicals which might be more harmful than the ones you started with.
Also TAR basically the extract you get from heating any organic matter without completely burning it.
(this is different from the "tar pit" tar, which is actually not tar at all, but asphalt)
2006-12-29 11:13:47 · answer #1 · answered by neuron finder 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Most of them are added to change the taste, some like salt peter are added to keep them lit, mostly there binding agents, others are purely for addiction purposes. Did you know the average dose of nicotine has risen 10% in the last decade.
2006-12-29 10:49:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
the tar and nicotine are already in the plant leaves. as are vitamins and minerals are in salad leaves or thc is in weed, the only additives (sulphur etc to keep them burning ) are comparitively harmless compared to whats already there.
2006-12-29 11:10:08 · answer #3 · answered by OhSimonsBinDrinkin 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My theory is, is that it is because the leaves are dried and then burnt. If you could just buy them and eat raw, or add to a nice casserole, I'm sure it would be part of your five day! Sadly, drying anything depeletes its nutritional value; and burning anything conributes to global warming. QED, a dried then burnt and inhaled mixture is not good! Sorry.
2006-12-29 10:57:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
the additives are to make is slowly burn and the gunpowder that are in the rings wrapped around the cig make sure it keeps burning and all the other additives are for taste I think--but yuck they taste gross-this is coming from a smoker who sooo wants to quit but it is very hard to stop...
2006-12-29 10:51:42 · answer #5 · answered by Art 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The majority of these so called killer chemicals, are located in that nice pure, bleached white, written upon, paper and filter that are attached to modern day ciggies.
'They' do not tell you that fact!...Only that it is the ciggies that are fault.
2006-12-29 11:00:26 · answer #6 · answered by Moorglademover 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
to make the tobacco more addicting.
2006-12-29 10:51:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
They add them because they are what have the addictive properties
2006-12-29 10:51:44 · answer #8 · answered by Lou 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They add them to flavour them!!
2006-12-29 10:47:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
because they are stu***
2006-12-29 10:47:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋