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Smoking and cancer: What's in a cigarette? : Cancer Research UK
According to this site (and sadly, I do tend to trust UK / Euro data more than I do U.S., but whatever). There are 70 cancer causing chemicals emitted when burning a cigarette out of over 4,000
Now it really depends on your data because I have read studies that say 8-12 cancer causing chemicals upwards of over 100 which makes me believe that all they REALLY know is that smoking causes cancer and that's pretty much it...
When smoking became popular in the 20's, 30,s 40,s and then the explosion of smokers in the 50's, we were all lead to believe it was fine to smoke and even healthy! It wasn't until the 70's when all these smokers started getting cancer and began dying that somebody thought to link it to cigarettes.
So 10 years from now you could find out that Vaping has caused your internal organs to turn to mush and you end up a big pile of goo at a stop light. Fact is. We don't know for sure. What we do know, is that dying from cancer is probably one of the worst ways to go. It is a slow, agonizing torturous way to die (Aunt died of throat cancer, 2 grandmothers of lung cancer. two grandfathers of heart attacks related to smoking and chewing tobacco, etc).
We also know that artificial sweeteners will give you cancer. That processed sugar will give you diabetes, high blood sugar. Make you grow fat. The high fructose corn syrup used in ALL american cokes, sodas is a great killer. Red meat. Mercury in fish. Pesticide covered fruits and vegetables. Cholesterol in eggs. Seafood. I mean...
You get my point? According to "studies" EVERYTHING is going to kill you. Including the AIR you breathe!
I read some ridiculous story the other week about some study that suggested broccoli was bad for you. I mean HUH? Broccoli??
All we can do is try, and based off of chest x-rays and improved breathing, vaping does seem to be a much better alternative than smoking a cigarette.
- Cancer-causing chemicals in tobacco smoke
- Tar - a mixture of dangerous chemicals
- Arsenic - used in wood preservatives
- Benzene - an industrial solvent, refined from crude oil
- Cadmium - used in batteries
- Formaldehyde - used in mortuaries and paint manufacturing
- Polonium-210 - a highly radioactive element
- Chromium - used to manufacture dye, paints and alloys
- 1,3-Butadiene - used in rubber manufacturing
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons - a group of dangerous DNA-damaging chemicals
- Nitrosamines - another group of DNA-damaging chemicals
- Acrolein - formerly used as a chemical weapon
- Other chemicals
- Other poisons in cigarette smoke
- Hydrogen cyanide - used as an industrial pesticide
- Carbon monoxide - found in car exhausts and used in chemicals manufacturing
- Nitrogen oxides - a major component of smog
- Ammonia - used to make fertilisers and explosives
- More poisons
Honestly, there could be a million chemicals in liquid, as long as none of them are going to cause me to die a horrible prolonged death, I'll just have to live with that because the alternative is way worse.
Tobacco in its most basic form is a vegetable, and tobacco in its most basic form has cancer causing properties when burned. In its most basic form it is 100% organic. So is wormwood, nightshade, and a lot of other deadly poisons. Big Tobacco companies just made it more lethal by adding chemicals that allowed our bodies to absorb the addictive properties of it more efficiently.
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