What are main chemicals in a cigarettes?

Answer 1

The main chemical is nicotine (which naturally occurs in tobacco, along with tar), but there have been reports of over 4000 different toxins as well.

http://www.healthliteracy.worlded.org/docs/tobacco/Unit4/1whats_in.html

Answer 2

While these ingredients are approved as additives for foods, they were not tested by burning them, and it is the burning of many of these substances which changes their properties, often for the worse. Over 4000 chemical compounds are created by burning a cigarette - 69 of those chemicals are known to cause cancer.Carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, hydrogen cyanides and ammonia are all present in cigarette smoke. Forty-three known carcinogens are in mainstream smoke, sidestream smoke or both. It's chilling to think about not only how smokers poison themselves, but what others are exposed to by breathing in the secondhand smoke. The next time you're missing your old buddy, the cigarette, take a good long look at this list and see them for what they are: a delivery system for toxic chemical and carcinogens.

Answer 3

I believe rat poisoning is one of them. There are alot of chemicals in one cigarette.

Answer 4

Carbon monoxide, nicotine and Tar

Answer 5

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