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A 2011 report in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) lists 65 carcinogens or possible carcinogens: "Our list of hazardous smoke components includes all nine components reported in mainstream cigarette smoke that are known human carcinogens (IARC Group I carcinogens), as well as all nine components that ...
Cigarette smoke contains more than 5,000 chemicals, including 60 known carcinogens that can damage DNA. When DNA is damaged, cells can grow, multiply and become cancerous. When DNA is damaged ...
Exposure to cigarette smoke impacts proteins involved in DNA methylation. These effects come from either hypoxia induced by the cigarette smoke, or the chemical consequences of nicotine. Inhaling cigarette smoke increases blood levels of carbon monoxide which negatively affects oxygenation throughout the body leading to hypoxia. [1]
The tobacco-specific nitrosamines are present in cigarette smoke and to a lesser degree in "smokeless" tobacco products such as dipping tobacco and chewing tobacco; additional information has shown that trace amounts of NNN and NNK have been detected in e-cigarettes. [3] They are present in trace amounts in snus. They are important carcinogens ...
After Columbus, Ohio banned the sale of menthol cigarettes on Jan. 1, the state legislature voted to strip cities of their ability to regulate tobacco. Doctors are outraged. Ohio reverses local ...
Cooking food at high temperatures, for example grilling or barbecuing meats, may also lead to the formation of minute quantities of many potent carcinogens that are comparable to those found in cigarette smoke (i.e., benzopyrene). [21] Charring of food looks like coking and tobacco pyrolysis, and produces carcinogens.
Cigarette companies in the United States, when prompted to give tar/nicotine ratings for cigarettes, usually use "tar", in quotation marks, to indicate that it is not the road surface component. Tar is occasionally referred to as an acronym for total aerosol residue , [ 3 ] a backronym coined in the mid-1960s.
Volunteers who had either switched to e-cigarettes or another form of nicotine-replacement therapy (NRT) for at least six months, researchers found, had much lower levels of toxins and carcinogens ...