| The Tobacco Reference Guide
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| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 19 Tobacco ingredients, additives, and radioactivity |
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| Dr. John Slade, associate professor of medicine at the University of Medicine and |
| Dentistry, New Jersey, advocates regulation of cigarettes to reduce the amount of |
| soot, a term he prefers to "tar." One alternative would be to impose higher taxes on |
| more toxic high-soot cigarettes, or to set limits on soot levels. |
| US News and World Report, December 30, 1996, pp. 66-67 |
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| Toxic components of cigarette smoke include carbon monoxide (used for suicides in |
| garages with the car engine running), nicotine (active ingredient in bug sprays and |
| pesticides), acetone (nail polish remover), naphthalene (active ingredient in |
| mothballs), ammonia (toilet bowl cleaner), hydrazine (rocket fuel), methane (swamp |
| gas), acetylene (blow torches), polonium-210 (radioactive particles), and hydrogen |
| cyanide (active ingredient in San Quentin gas chamber). The leading source of lead |
| exposure in buildings with smokers is environmental tobacco smoke. |
| Stanton Glantz lecture, San Francisco, February 24, 1994 |
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| The British Medical Journal (November 30, 1996, p. 1348) editorialized that the time |
| has come for international standards for the "global cigarette" with a limit of 12 |
| milligrams of tar, or soot, and 1 mg of nicotine. "This should be stated on all packets in |
| every country along with health warnings." In 1997, the European Union mandated an |
| upper limit of 12 mg tar to replace the current limit of 15 mg. Currently, the Lucky |
| Strike brand delivers less than 15 mg soot in Europe but 27 mg in the United States. |
| British Medical Journal (November 30, 1996, p. 1348) |
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