What+is+in+a+cigarette?

=Fact: An average sized American cigarette (i.e.Marlboro or Camel) has approximately 4000 chemicals. =

**__Chemicals__**
Some common yet __//**HARMFUL**//__ chemicals found in a cigarette are ; Benzene, Ammonia, Acetone, Tar, Nicotine, Carbon Monoxide and Arsenic. Most of the chemicals found in a cigarette are used in poisons. Nicotine is the most addictive chemical in a cigarette. The reason people want it is because when smoking a cigarette you feel a strong sense of calmness, your brain releases a chemical called dopamine it enhances your nervous system and makes you more alert. Another addiction factor is habit, if you smoke ever day four times a day for a week it becomes a part of your daily living.
 * for the full list of chemicals please click this link. [[|complete list on wikipedia] ]

=Fact: The average smoker inhales roughly one cup of tar a year. =

__**The Process A Cigarette is made**__
It all starts in a factory. This is where all of the 'ingredients' are put together to make a typical blended cigarette.

Next tobacco dust, from previously made cigarettes, is swept from the factory __//**FLOOR**//__ is added and so are old/expired cigarettes that are sent back to the factory.

Everything is then added to a giant vat, and it is beaten up. During the beating it is all 'strained' like a tea bag. All of the Substance is then pulled into another vat and this is known as 'Mother Liquor'.

Then all of the chemicals are added into the 'Mother Liquor' the harshness of the cigarette is slowly smoothened.

Then butter and animal fat are added to the ingredients this is to help make the cigarette taste better.

The 'Mother Liquor' is then sprayed onto paper, and the paper is then shredded to make reconstituted tobacco.

Sugar is added so that the tobacco can be absorbed into the smoker's body as fast as possible.

Then to finished the process everything is shredded one last time the shredded paper is pushed into rolled tubes of paper and then joined with a filter. The cigarettes are the packaged and shipped.

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__**Some More Information on Nicotine**__
Nicotine is a poison (neurotoxin) that can harm and even kill your nervous cells. This is used to protect the plant that it comes from, when the plant is eaten by animals they get sick or are harmed. Some chemicals are absorbed from the soil where the Nicotine plants are grown, when fertilizers are added the soil carries it to the plant. Your brain and heart are at great risk when Nicotine is in your system because your neurons are killed and your heart rate increases. When you are finally ready to give up the addicting habit you will go through horrible things such as; cravings, irritability, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, restlessness and disturbed sleep.

__The Filter__
The filter in a typical cigarette wasn't important until 1954 when it became more of a 'must have' because of health concerns. The filter lowers the amount of smoke that the smoker inhales, or so companies claim that it does. The truth is that it doesn't do much to stop the harmful smoke entering the smokers lungs.

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