Not just rat poison, but so many of the ingredients just sound straight up unnecessary and also harmful. Why is there tar in cigarettes? Or arsenic? Formaldehyde? I get the tobacco and nicotine part but do you really need 1001 poisons in it???
EDIT: Thanks for answering! I was also curious on why cocaine needs cement powder and gasoline added in production. Snorting cement powder does not sound like a good idea. Then again, snorting cocaine is generally not considered a good idea… but still, why is there cement and gasoline in cocaine??
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> Why is there tar in cigarettes?
Because when you burn plant material you get tar. Tobacco is plant material, therefore there is tar in smoked cigarettes.
> Or arsenic?
The tobacco plant takes up arsenic naturally present in the soil, so when you burn it the arsenic is released as well. Most edible plants contain some amount of arsenic.
> Formaldehyde?
When you burn cellulose, sugars, etc. it can create formaldehyde. Burning plant matter is going to create a lot of substances, you would get formaldehyde from burning lettuce.
> …but so many of the ingredients just sound straight up unnecessary and also harmful.
That is 1000% the point. The people crowing about the ingredients are trying to convince you that smoking tobacco is horrible for you and so they tell you all about the scary ingredients in the smoke while not mentioning the fact that it is also in the smoke of any burning plant matter.
Smoking is of course bad for you. But the vast majority of the harmful ingredients that are cited the producers don’t add to the tobacco.
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