By Kasia and Pamela What is in a cigarette? ? ?

What’s inside a cigarette? There are a lot of substances inside a cigarette that you would not expect there to be. Some of them are:

Secret Ingredients of Cigarettes Here are some of the substances used in cigarettes that are listed out to the public for the first time: Sugar Menthol Artificial Milk Chocolate Valerian Root Extract Cedarwood Oil Isolvaleric Acid Water Vanilla Extracts

Poorer People Tend to Smoke The statement above is true: 84% of people living in developing countries smoke, for example people in Bangladesh, use up about ten more times money for tobacco then education. Tobacco in developing countries also causes a high illiteracy rate because little money is spend on education.

Second Hand Smoke Second Hand Smoke is the substance that is let out once the cigarette is burned. It can be also known as ETS (enviromental tobacco smoke.) People which stand next to a smoking person and are involuntarily made to breath in the smoke are called passive smokers. Each year, 3,000 nonsmokers die of lung cancer from second hand smoke.

Survey To raise awarness, children made a campaign and a website called: ‘What are you Smoking?’ This survey concluded that during two weeks more teens (49%) remember tobacco avertisements rather than adults (29%). This is probably because of the enormous amounts of money that are spend on advertising- $42 million a day which often target teens.

Quick Facts Half of the people who smoke today- about 650 million – will die of a tobacco-related illness. Tobacco is the second highest death cause of on Earth. On average, smokers die about years earlier than no-smokers. Each cigarette takes from 5-10 minutes of your life (it might seem little, but for someone who smokes around 30 cigarettes a day, each day will cause him to die even 300 minutes earlier, which is already 5 hours less of life each day!) Nearly 21% of Americans are current smokers.

‘What’s in a Cigarette?’ Video /watch?v=pPtCZawoI bw

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