what are the harmful chemicals or toxins that can be inhaled from cigarettes?

Answer 1

Why are there so many lazy jerks on Answers that can't do a simple Google search and get their own flippin' answer??

Answer 2

Marijuana to the central nervous system. Cigarettes on the other hand just because people tend to smoke more cigarettes than they do joints? Let me put it this way: the Big Tobacco has been adding all kind ofaddictive substances and others, totally uncontrolled, many of which carcinogenic too, throughout the years. So, if you smoke a cigarette these days it isn't merely like smoking tobacco and it's rather different from smoking a fag, say, 50 years ago. Still, even though that evidence is denied by every pot smoker on the face of the planet, marijuana has been proven to be several times more carcinogenic than tobacco. Not to mention haschich, since it's usually mixed with tobacco, so you get the worst of both worlds. To be honest, they're both brutally harmful, this in the words of someone who smoked cigarettes (a pack and a half a day) until roughly 2 years and four months ago and who smoked pot/haschich many years ago and a had a breakdown on account of that "harmless" joke - and a breakdown leaves you scars for the rest of your life.

Answer 3

Yes, there are over 200 chemicals in second hand smoke that could kill you. These bad toxins are filtered for the smoker, but they go to everyone else around them. Wrong , huh? This means that being around a smoker can be more harmful than smoking a cigarette yourself. It makes the walls yellow and peely, the windows on the car covered in yellowish, brownish, black film, and it hurts the person that you smoke around.Benzo[a]pyrene found in coal tar, one of the most potent cancer-causing chemicals.

Some of these unbelievable chemicals are:

*Formaldehyde (used to preserve dead animals and people)
*Hydrogen cyanide (used in rat poison.)
*Ammonia (used to clean floors and toilets.)

Pretty scary what you may be breathing, huh? When someone is smoking in a car with you, even with the window cracked like most people do it circulates it back in. Here is what you can do to prevent getting hurt by Second hand smoke.

Make your home smoke-free. Remember, the smoke from one cigarette can stay in a room for hours, even if the window is open.
Air purifiers and ventilation systems might remove some of the smoke, but cannot remove all the toxic chemicals.

Do not allow smoking in your car. As most cars are airtight, the cigarette smoke has no place to escape. Opening a window can change the airflow and cause the smoke to be blown directly back at the people in the car.

Talk to your family and friends about the dangers of second-hand smoke and encourage them to create smoke-free homes and cars.

Do not let family, friends and babysitters smoke around your baby.

Ask your family and friends to respect your smoke- free environment.

If you need more info, go to; http://www.tobaccofacts.org
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca
http://www.cctc.ca
http://www.smoke-free.ca
http://www.cleanaircoalitionbc.com

Answer 4

Arsenic(rat poison)Hydrogen Cyanide(gas chamber poison)
Formaldehyde(embalming fluid) Ammonia(toilet cleaner)
Acetone(nail polish remover) Carbon monoxide(co) (car exhaust fumes) yuk.

Answer 5

There are traces of 200 different chemicals in cigarettes that have been proven to cause cancer. Formaldahyde is one. You know-the stuff they embalm dead people with!

Answer 6

It shouldn't matter what is in cigarettes. They will kill you. It doesn't matter what the name of the chemical is, dead is dead.

Answer 7

You can find a great deal of information you are seeking here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette

Answer 8

carcinogens? toxins..... over 200 different ones

Answer 9

well the most famous ones are nicotine and tar. tar is wat makes your lungs black, clogged, and icky. nicotine contributes to it too. if youre a heavy smoker, after about a year, youre paint in your house can possibly start to peel off. so if it can do that to paint, imagine wat it will do to your body. dont do it!

Answer 10

carbon monoxyde, tar, cyanide, benzene, and many more