There is no tar in cigarettes. What is called tar is actually sugar that has been burned and crystalized. That is what people who smoke are addicted to. That is what is in cigarettes that causes so much addiction. Its the sugar you inhale into your lungs when you smoke.
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Its glucose. Sugar is one of the most addictive substances there is. The withdrawl symptoms of sugar are similar to the withdrawl symptoms of tobacco withdrawl. Headaches, anxiety, jitters, cravings... etc. etc... you should check it out. Its the same symptoms you get when you quit smoking.
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The most addictive part of tobacco is nicotine. Naturally-grown tobacco, which is used world wide, produces a small amount of nicotine. To make tobacco more addictive, North American cigarette manufacturers have made the following additions and changes to natural tobacco:
1. The nicotine is produced in an ammonia-salt, free-based form. It is absorbed more rapidly and delivers a more powerful kick. Despite a decrease in the amount of nicotine per cigarette, there is an increase in the delivery speed of the nicotine. (Kind of like free-based ........) This ammonia technology is what made the tiny Phillip Morris cigarette company to become one of the top-selling cigarettes. In 1978, one in five cigarettes sold were Phillip Morris Marlboros, which was smoked by over 50% of smokers under 18 years. The cigarettes popularity with younger people had little to do with the male model portraying the Marlboro Man.
2. Theobromine, an active ingredient found in chocolate (from cocoa). It is a bronchodilator, which expands the body's airways and lets asthmatics breath easier. When it is added to cigarettes, it expands the airways for increased smoke and nicotine intake. This forces more nicotine and smoke (and tar) into the lungs at a faster rate than natural tobacco.
3. Glycyrrhizin. Another bronchodilator that becomes carcinogenic when it burns.
4. Sugar. This makes the tobacco sweeter and more addictive to younger people. Sugar takes up about 3% of a cigarette's weight. When it burns, it produces acetaldehyde, the same poison that alcohol produces in your body.
1. The nicotine is produced in an ammonia-salt, free-based form. It is absorbed more rapidly and delivers a more powerful kick. Despite a decrease in the amount of nicotine per cigarette, there is an increase in the delivery speed of the nicotine. (Kind of like free-based ........) This ammonia technology is what made the tiny Phillip Morris cigarette company to become one of the top-selling cigarettes. In 1978, one in five cigarettes sold were Phillip Morris Marlboros, which was smoked by over 50% of smokers under 18 years. The cigarettes popularity with younger people had little to do with the male model portraying the Marlboro Man.
2. Theobromine, an active ingredient found in chocolate (from cocoa). It is a bronchodilator, which expands the body's airways and lets asthmatics breath easier. When it is added to cigarettes, it expands the airways for increased smoke and nicotine intake. This forces more nicotine and smoke (and tar) into the lungs at a faster rate than natural tobacco.
3. Glycyrrhizin. Another bronchodilator that becomes carcinogenic when it burns.
4. Sugar. This makes the tobacco sweeter and more addictive to younger people. Sugar takes up about 3% of a cigarette's weight. When it burns, it produces acetaldehyde, the same poison that alcohol produces in your body.
aLaboratory for Toxicology, Pathology and Genetics, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), P.O. Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Received 19 December 2005;
accepted 15 June 2006.
Available online 8 July 2006.
Abstract
Sugars are natural tobacco components, and are also frequently added to tobacco during the manufacturing process. This review describes the fate of sugars during tobacco smoking, in particular the effect of tobacco sugars on mainstream smoke composition. In natural tobacco, sugars can be present in levels up to 20 wt%. In addition, various sugars are added in tobacco manufacturing in amounts up to 4 wt% per sugar. The added sugars are usually reported to serve as flavour/casing and humectant. However, sugars also promote tobacco smoking, because they generate acids that neutralize the harsh taste and throat impact of tobacco smoke. Moreover, the sweet taste and the agreeable smell of caramelized sugar flavors are appreciated in particular by starting adolescent smokers. Finally, sugars generate acetaldehyde, which has addictive properties and acts synergistically with nicotine in rodents. Apart from these consumption-enhancing pyrolysis products, many toxic (including carcinogenic) smoke compounds are generated from sugars. In particular, sugars increase the level of formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, acetone, acrolein, and 2-furfural in tobacco smoke. It is concluded that sugars in tobacco significantly contribute to the adverse health effects of tobacco smoking.
Received 19 December 2005;
accepted 15 June 2006.
Available online 8 July 2006.
Abstract
Sugars are natural tobacco components, and are also frequently added to tobacco during the manufacturing process. This review describes the fate of sugars during tobacco smoking, in particular the effect of tobacco sugars on mainstream smoke composition. In natural tobacco, sugars can be present in levels up to 20 wt%. In addition, various sugars are added in tobacco manufacturing in amounts up to 4 wt% per sugar. The added sugars are usually reported to serve as flavour/casing and humectant. However, sugars also promote tobacco smoking, because they generate acids that neutralize the harsh taste and throat impact of tobacco smoke. Moreover, the sweet taste and the agreeable smell of caramelized sugar flavors are appreciated in particular by starting adolescent smokers. Finally, sugars generate acetaldehyde, which has addictive properties and acts synergistically with nicotine in rodents. Apart from these consumption-enhancing pyrolysis products, many toxic (including carcinogenic) smoke compounds are generated from sugars. In particular, sugars increase the level of formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, acetone, acrolein, and 2-furfural in tobacco smoke. It is concluded that sugars in tobacco significantly contribute to the adverse health effects of tobacco smoking.
This. Scientific research paper on the subject from a laboratory for toxicology, pathology and genetics.
People are addicted to the nicotine not the sugars.
Sugars may make tobacco more appetizing but it's not the addictive property
Sugar is one of things in cigarettes that causes problems no doubt. However in your first post you claimed that it was in fact burnt crystallised sugar that people are addicted when smoking cigarettes. I don't believe this. You need to cite sources with links to back it up. None of your additional posts appear to support this, in fact post #7 opens by contradicting it. So please provide us with links to studies that show we are in fact addicted to burnt sugar rather than nicotine.
Did you read the scientific paper that I quoted twice? I even put a link to it. You might check it out. Nicotine is a bitter alkaloid that is used to help cross pollunation of the plants. Nicotine doesnt kill hummingbirds so how could it kill humans? All it does is taste bitter and cause the hummingbirds to bugger off and go somewhere else.
Strangely enough hummingbirds that help to pollunate tobacco plants dont seem to get addicted to nicotine. There is a lot of disinformation out there and its a bit sad that people cant see through it. Tobacco plants produce a very pretty flower that hummingbirds love to suck the nectar out of. That nectar contains nicotine. After the hummingbird has had so much nicotine the bitter taste gets to be too much for them and they bugger off to another plant. At no time do they drop dead from ingesting nicotine nor do they ever become addicted to it. Think about it.
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So let's see....if this (one reference) is true, why not make patches and gums from sugar then instead of nicotine?
And they aren't addicted? Why do they keep going back?
Ha! We were typing at the same time Css.
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And they aren't addicted? Why do they keep going back?
Ha! We were typing at the same time Css.
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