How many chemicals in cigarettes and cigars are known or suspected to cause cancer?

Answer 1

Approximately 43 known cancer causing elements can be found in cigarettes.

Pesticides, heavy-alloy-metals and chemicals contain a lot of different cancer causing substances.

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As a scientist, you have to ask how did these 'nasties' get into cigarettes.

Now pesticides are not only used on tobacco, they are used on the plants we eat. (Pesticides made from tobacco are approved for organic farming!)

Heavy metals (not alloys!), like cadmium, Mercury, lead, polonium-210 and arsenic, occur naturally and are absorbed by ALL plants from the earth and atmosphere.

Many are produced in the combustion but they are also produced when you throw another log on the fire, fire up the gas or oil-fired central heating, have a BBQ, light a candle, etc.

Some are tobacco specific but very little research, if any, on those specific to apples, carrots, etc has been performed.

The vast majority of additives to tobacco are approved additives to foods and drinks.

A study found 19 carcinogens in a cup of coffee - without the state of the art equipment and billions of dollars of funding that Tobacco Control has.

Either all those nasties in Tobacco are deliberate scaremongering Propaganda or we're ALL doomed!

Answer 2

Cigarette smoke contains at least 43 carcinogens

The vast majority of these are in the Classification "Group 3: The agent (mixture or exposure circumstance) is not classifiable as to its carcinogenicity to humans."

This group also includes:

Caffeine

Chlorinated drinking water

Electric fields

Ferric oxide (rust)

Fluorescent lighting

Paracetamol

Polystyrene

Saccharin

Surgical implants

Talcum powder

Thiobromine (present in chocolate)

Vitamin K

Answer 3

cigarettes dont give you cancer. they only increase the risk of getting it and there is no specific number of cigarettes needed to do so

It's a bit like a lottery, where every cigarette is a ticket. The more tickets you buy(= the more cigarettes you smoke) the higher the chance of winning(=getting cancer). There's no number that's guaranteed "safe", just as there's no number where you'll automatically get cancer.

Answer 4

All the 4,500+ chemicals in cigarettes can/have the ability to cause cancer. However, some chemicals tend to be more carcinogenic than others . The average cigarette smoker lives to be into the 70's. Each person that smokes cigarettes likely hood of acquiring cancer varies from person to person. Some people are affected within months some people may never show signs or test for cancer. We are still learning the long term effects of cancer from smoking cigarretts.

Answer 5

There are over a million carincogens in cigs.

ABSOLUTE RUBBISH.

Answer 6

About 200-1,000.

Answer 7

4,000; 50

Answer 8

700