What are 5 ingredients in cigarettes?

Here are a few of the chemicals in tobacco smoke and other places they are found:

• Acetone—found in nail polish remover.
• Acetic acid—an ingredient in hair dye.
• Ammonia—a common household cleaner.
• Arsenic—used in rat poison.
• Benzene—found in rubber cement and gasoline.
• Butane—used in lighter fluid.

What ingredients are in Newport cigarettes?

Compound

• Tobacco.
• Water.
• Glycerol.
• Specially Denatured Alcohol #4.
• Brown Invert Syrup.
• Propylene Glycol.
• Menthol.
• Licorice.

What class of drug is nicotine?

Nicotine is classified as a stimulant of autonomic ganglia. Nicotine is a stimulant drug that acts as an agonist at nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.

What are the main ingredients in tobacco?

Tobacco is the cured, dried leaves from the plant N. tabacum (for most commercial tobacco) or N. rustica (in other parts of the world such as Vietnam), which is the main ingredient in cigarettes, chewing tobacco, snuff and snus (in powdered form), pipe tobacco, cigars and shisha tobacco.

What is an ingredient in tobacco that causes cancer?

Tobacco smoke is made up of thousands of chemicals, including at least 70 known to cause cancer. These cancer-causing chemicals are referred to as carcinogens. Some of the chemicals found in tobacco smoke include:· Nicotine (the addictive drug that produces the effect people are looking for and one of the harshest chemicals in tobacco smoke)

What ingredient is ‘nicotine’ in tobacco?

Nicotine is a chemical that contains nitrogen, which is made by several types of plants, including the tobacco plant. It is also produced synthetically. Nicotiana tabacum, the type of nicotine found in tobacco plants, comes from the nightshade family.

What are the side effects of smokeless tobacco?

The harmful health effects of using smokeless tobacco include: Oral (mouth) cancer. Pancreatic cancer. Addiction to nicotine. Sores in the mouth. Receding gums. Bone loss around the roots of the teeth.