Zz Cigarette Toxins Make A Smoking Gun Poem by Saiom Shriver

Smoking is the number 1 cause of home fire deaths in the US

Insecticides used on tobacco plants harm living beings and poison river waters.

Smoking adds to health costs all over the world.

Smoking takes an average 10 years off of a longterm smoker's life.

Some chemicals in cigarette smoke

Acetone - found in nail polish remover
Acetic Acid - an ingredient in hair dye
Acrolein used as a chemical weapon in WW1
Ammonia - a common household cleaner
Arsenic - used in rat poison
Benzene - found in rubber cement
1,3 Butadiene
Butane - used in lighter fluid
Cadmium - active component in battery acid
Carbon Monoxide - released in car exhaust fumes
Chromium
Formaldehyde - embalming fluid
Hexamine - found in barbecue lighter fluid
Hydrogen Cyanide- industrial insecticide
Lead - used in batteries
Naphthalene - an ingredient in moth balls
Methanol - a main component in rocket fuel
Nicotine - used as insecticide
Nitrogen oxides- a component of smog
Polonium 210- radioactive
Polycylic aromatic hydrocarbons
Polyvinyl acetate... one of the toxic fire suppression chemicals the government has not tested
Tar - material for paving roads
Tobacco specific nitrosamines
Toluene - used to manufacture paint



THE FOLLOWING ARE INSECTICIDES, HERBICIDES AND FUNGICIDES USED ON TOBACCO PLANTS




Imidacloprid
Acephate
Fenimiphos
Bacillus Thuringiensis
Methomyl
Thiodan
Pendimethilum
Mefenoxam
Maleic hydrazide
Butralin
Flumetralin
Ethephon
Fatty Alcohols




NBC

' Kentucky has the most smokers — more than 28 percent of the population smokes there, compared to just 11 percent in Utah, which has the lowest rates'



While the CDC ignores mentioning the hazards in meat and fish and downplays alcohol,

it has some good facts about smoking.



An estimated 42.1 million people, or 18.1% of all adults (aged 18 years or older) , in the United States smoke cigarettes.1 Cigarette smoking is more common among men (20.5%) than women (15.8%) .1





'Tobacco use leads to disease and disability.

Smoking causes cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases (including emphysema, bronchitis, and chronic airway obstruction) , and diabetes.1
For every person who dies from a smoking-related disease, about 30 more people suffer with at least one serious illness from smoking.1
More than 16 million Americans suffer from a disease caused by smoking.1


'Tobacco use is a leading preventable cause of death.


Worldwide, tobacco use causes more than 5 million deaths per year, and current trends show that tobacco use will cause more than 8 million deaths annually by 2030.2
Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including an estimated 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure.1 This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day.1
On average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers.3
If smoking persists at the current rate among youth in this country,5.6 million of today's Americans younger than 18 years of age are projected to die prematurely from a smoking-related illness. This represents about one in every 13 Americans aged 17 years or younger who are alive today.1'
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It is not true that tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death. Meat far surpasses





http: //therealcost.betobaccofree.hhs.gov/facts/toxic-mix/index.html

'The 7,000+ Chemicals in Cigarette Smoke

When you light a cigarette, you unleash more than 7,000 chemicals.These include chemicals also found in paint thinners, pesticides and even chemical weapons.Many of the chemicals in cigarette smoke have the potential to do serious harm to your body.

Many of the dangerous chemicals in cigarette smoke—like carbon monoxide, for example—are formed as the cigarette burns.
Chemicals in the soil and fertilizer used around a plant can add heavy metals like cadmium, lead and other toxins to tobacco.These toxins pass from the soil to the plant and straight into your body when you smoke.
Dangerous chemicals can also be formed when tobacco leaves are cured, processed and stored, or introduced when cigarettes are manufactured.
Even cigarettes marketed as 'natural' or 'additive-free' are not a safer option. Why? Because not all of the chemicals are added by tobacco companies—many, such as highly addictive nicotine, are found within the plant itself or form as the cigarette burns.

The Seventh Day Adventists have

a series of self hypnotism tapes they give out

to end smoking. Nicotine gum, nicotine patches

and other things work. God break all our chains.

Supportive Links

http: //www.toxicfreenc.org/informed/pdfs/Tobacco_chems.pdf

https: //www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/smoking/GeneralAudienceFactSheet.pdf

http: //www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-info/healthyliving/smoking-and-cancer/whats-in-a-cigarette/smoking-and-cancer-whats-in-a-cigarette#morepoisons

http: //lung.org

http: //www.quitsmokingsupport.com/whatsinit.htm

fire suppression chemicals, just 1 category of cig. toxins



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http: //nerdapproved.com/bizarre-gadgets/smoking-gun-perfect-metaphor-for-smokings-dangers/