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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 ...
[7] [2] [8] [9] See: Health effects of tobacco smoking and List of cigarette smoke carcinogens. Although many of these additives are used in making cigarettes, each cigarette does not contain all of these additives. Some of these additives are found in cigarettes outside the USA too. [10] Some American brands are sold in other nations.
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 ...
Sidestream smoke in enclosed box. Sidestream smoke is smoke which goes into the air directly from a burning cigarette, cigar, or smoking pipe. [1] Sidestream smoke is the main component (around 85%) of second-hand smoke (SHS), also known as Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) or passive smoking. [2]
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.
Researchers using high-tech air monitoring equipment rolled through an industrialized stretch of southeast Louisiana in mobile labs and found levels of a carcinogen in concentrations as much as 20 ...
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.