why are so many extra chemicals and things put in cigarettes?
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There really aren’t, those “522 dangerous chemicals in cigarette smoke” claims, while technically true, are deliberately misleading.
Plants contain complex organic molecules, and any time your burn them, you are going to form a lot of different kinds of new molecules. Most of them have the potential to be dangerous in high concentrations and it makes it sound scarier if you call the natural products of combustion “chemicals”, but you would get a similar number in smoke from a campfire.
Smoking is still a terrible health risk for any number of reasons, but the “harmful chemicals” argument dishonestly implies tobacco makers are putting a bunch of weird stuff in the cigarettes when they are not.
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