What’s in Cigarette Smoke?
See the inside story at www.health.gov.bc.ca/ttdr/index.html with details on the additives and ingredients of many brands of cigarettes.
Don’t Get Sucked In
It’s a big poster
but then, with more than 4,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke, it has to
be. Sucked In illustrates the toxins and additives that
smokers inhale with every puff.
Click
here to learn about some of the toxins and additives with the interactive
version of the Sucked In Poster!
Take a Garage Tour
You’ll discover that many of the ingredients in products found on the shelves of your garage – pesticides, toxins, and poisons – are also found in cigarette smoke.
Flash required. Games provided by the Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission (AADAC). Other AADAC resources can be located through www.aadac.com.
Cigarettes Inside Out
It's a fact. When you read the toxic emissions list on a pack of smokes, you probably think you're only inhaling the usual suspects. You know - tar, carbon monoxide, nicotine, cyanide, formaldehyde and ammonia, for starters.
Here's the low-down on some of the 4,000 chemicals found in cigarette smoke.
Health Canada Tobacco Reporting Regulations
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