Human excrement, asbestos and dead flies: The ingredients found in fake cigarettes in Britain | Mail Online
Now we know about the 4,000+ chemicals in tobacco cigarettes. This article in the UK's Daily Mail, albeit about a study commissioned by the tobacco industry, discusses other, absolutely vile contents in black market cigarettes that may also be inhaled.
From the article:
Fake cigarettes made from human excrement, asbestos, mould and dead flies are being smoked regularly in Britain, undercover detectives have found.
Investigators working for the tobacco industry have spent weeks rummaging through litter bins for ... packets to assess the scale of the black market.
They were astonished by the sheer volume of the illicit trade, with about one third of packets found to have contained fakes or cigarettes brought in by smugglers.
Now we know about the 4,000+ chemicals in tobacco cigarettes. This article in the UK's Daily Mail, albeit about a study commissioned by the tobacco industry, discusses other, absolutely vile contents in black market cigarettes that may also be inhaled.
From the article:
Fake cigarettes made from human excrement, asbestos, mould and dead flies are being smoked regularly in Britain, undercover detectives have found.
Investigators working for the tobacco industry have spent weeks rummaging through litter bins for ... packets to assess the scale of the black market.
They were astonished by the sheer volume of the illicit trade, with about one third of packets found to have contained fakes or cigarettes brought in by smugglers.
