What part of the a cigarette causes cancer?

Answer 1

Multiple things; mostly the chemicals that are added by the tobacco companies to enhance their products. Plus the fact when you inhale anything into your lungs you irritate them - causing damage.

Answer 2

The tar and poisonous gases produced as combustion products (smoke) are inhaled into the lungs, where they damage the cells, alveoli, that exchange oxygen in the lungs. This can cause tissue death, as in emphysema, or trigger mutations that grow into useless tissue, which is cancer.

Answer 3

It is mostly just the tobacco. First, tobacco is often allowed to ferment, and the fermentation can create carcinogens. Then there may be carcinogenic additives. Then there is the smoke that is produced by burning the tobacco and the paper. Burning things often create carcinogens.

Answer 4

Scientists are unsure, it may be the tar, it may be the fertilizer or it may be the burning process.

Answer 5

cigarette smoke contains 69 chemicals that are known to cause cancer.some include:tar,arsenic,benzene,cadmium,and formaldehyde.

Answer 6

Cigarette smoke contains a substance generally known as tar, but known to chemists as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which causes cancer.

Answer 7

When cigarettes burn, there is a combustion byproduct that is commonly known as tar; chemists know it as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. That is what causes lung cancer.

Answer 8

nicotine and tar also carbon monoxide

Answer 9

it's the tar, since it's a carcinogen