What Cigarettes Are Made of

About some products say that if people saw how and from what they are made, they would never have bought and used them. We are not going to specify exactly which products are being discussed, since we would have to back these statements with at least some facts, and we do not need such a task at the moment. Now we are interested in one particular product that the tobacco industry supplies us with. Is it possible to assume that if smokers saw what cigarettes were made of, they would abandon their habit or at least significantly reduce the number of smoked "cancer sticks" as "affectionately", not without a share of black humor called the cigarette doctors?

If the very idea of smoking tobacco belongs to the Indians, then the discovery of cigarettes or, rather, cigarettes belongs to the participants of the Crimean War. It was then that the soldiers of the Russian and Turkish armies thought of pouring tobacco into paper cartridges from gunpowder. Then this method was adopted by British soldiers, and soon the first cigarette factory opened in London, using a similar principle. And when in the United States invented machines for making cigarettes, it became clear that the new industry has very great prospects.

It is clear that serious competition arose immediately in the new market, and tobacco manufacturers were concerned with the issue of lowering the cost of production, which rarely affects the quality better. So in the case of cigarettes. The times when natural tobacco leaves were used for their production, quickly passed. Then it was already known that the whole thing, the whole effect of smoking - in nicotine. So, it was necessary only to ensure sufficient content in the cigarette, and fill it with something that could burn and produce smoke. Also have gone to try, who in what much.

What modern cigarettes are made of - today not every expert will deal with it. Actively began to use tobacco waste - crumbs, stems, veins of leaves and other "trash". It is impregnated with all sorts of synthetic substances - in addition to the mandatory aqueous extract of nicotine, it is also a wide range of chemical fillers. Tastes and flavors of this became more, harm to health - too.

Doctors have long been sounding the alarm: what makes cigarettes from, is a serious danger for people . The resin of tobacco smoke contains, for example, benzapyrene - a proven carcinogen that poses a danger even in insignificant concentrations due to its pronounced bioaccumulation ability. Toxic heavy metal cadmium, accumulating in the kidneys and reducing the bone mineral density, enters the human body also only through smoking. Arsenic is widely known as the strongest poison, as well as prussic acid, and polonium - as a radioactive element, emitting alpha particles. And all this stuff is contained in tar of tobacco smoke.

The story of how cigarettes are made will, of course, be incomplete without mentioning the filters. Indeed, before cigarettes were equipped with an asbestos filter, then it was replaced by secondary cellulose acetate with various additives, for example - activated carbon. To some extent, the filter, of course, fulfills the task assigned to it - in this, probably everyone was convinced who wondered what the cigarettes do and "gutted" the cigarette butt, revealing a darkened filter soaked in dirt. Nevertheless, to say that filters completely neutralize the action of harmful and dangerous substances, alas, it is not necessary - something it detains, something weakens, and something and unhinderedly misses.

It will not be an exaggeration to say that everything from which cigarettes are made to the body is not useful. Even paper, glue, tar and paint - they are not meant for internal use at all. In sum, the tobacco products contain about 4 thousand all kinds of chemical compounds, and tobacco smoke - all 5 thousand. Mendeleyev's table, which doctors like to remember, rests!