What ingredient in tobacco that is the main carcinogen?

Answer 1

None of them. Epidemiological studies have SUGGESTED that tobacco MAY increase the RISK of developing cancer. Barbaric laboratory experiments on rats and dogs (try Googling "beagles smoking") have provided some further supporting EVIDENCE (and also contradictory evidence). Wouldn't the billions wasted be better spent researching a cure for cancer? Smoking rates are decreasing yet the incidence of cancer is increasing.

Answer 2

The list of additives allowed in the manufacture of cigarettes consists of 599 possible ingredients. When burned, cigarette smoke contains over 4000 chemicals, with over 40 of them being known carcinogens.

Of those 599 additives, the vast majority are approved by health agencies as food additives.

To put this in perspective, over 1,000 chemicals have been found in a cup of coffee, including 19 carcinogens. If there were a global, multi-billion dollar industry called Coffee Control, I'm positive that their 'experts' could out-do Tobacco Control's scaremongering Propaganda.

While all these billions of dollars are being wasted on telling adults in the developed world what we already know (smoking is bad for you), MILLIONS of CHILDREN are dying in the developing world every year from PREVENTABLE diseases, such as malaria, AIDS and diarrhoea.

Answer 3

A cigarette is made of tobacco obviously, it is like 90% of the stuff in the cigarette causes cancer. so there is allot of stuff that cause cancer in a cigarette.

Answer 4

NICOTENCE

Answer 5

Carcinogenics

it is lactic acid