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Monday, May 12, 2008
 

Is it fair that cigarettes don’t have to list additives when other products do?

To balance out the skewed statistics, here's a list of 51 chemicals you may find in cigarette smoke:

Apple juice concentrate, extracts, and skins
Bay leaf oil
Beeswax
Beet juice concentrace
Butter and butter oil
Caffeine
Capsicum oleoresin
Carrot oil
Celery seed extract
Cinnamon leaf oil, bark oil, and extract
Citric acid
Cocoa
Coconut oil
Dandelion root solid extract
Dill seed oil and extract
Fig juice concentrate
Geranium rose oil
Ginger oil
Grape juice concentrate
Honey
Hydrolyzed milk solids
Jasmine oil
Lavender oil
Lemon oil and extract
Licorice rot
Lime oil
Malt and malt extract
Maple syrup and concentrate
Molasses extract and tincture
Nutmeg power and oil
Oak chips extract and oil
Orange oil and extract
Parsley seed oil
Peppermint oil
Pine needle oil
Pineapple juice concentrate
Plum juice
Prune juice and concentrate
Raisin juice concentrace
Rosemary oil
Rum
Sage oil
Sandalwood oil
Spearmint oil
Sugars
Tea leaf and absolute
Vanilla extract and oleoresin
Water
Wheat extract and flour
Wine and wine sherry
Yeast

In other words, just because a hypothetical cigarette has 51 additives doesn't mean it has 51 toxic additives.  Give us truth, not rigged statistics.

Also, are the toxic chemicals in cigarettes additives?  Or byproducts too?  Adding something is one thing, burning it is another.

If I were to make a statement to TRUTH, it would be this:  Stop the shady campaigns.  Give us truth, not drama and embellished numbers.  Give us an arguement, not propaganda.  I agree with your anti-smoking campaign, but your commercials and advertisements are so ridiculous and stupid that I pay absolutely no attention to them.  Try something more intriguing than a bunch of people pushing stretchers and then pretending they're dead.  I quit smoking, but I find myself tempted to light up just to spite you and your pathetic commercials.

   

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didn't realized they put some of that stuff in cigarettes... why honey and why bay leaf (thought they were to make soups taste good).
Posted 5/12/2008 4:06 PM by online now NightlyDreams Xanga True Member - reply

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oh maybe they are just trying to recycle food by products?
Posted 5/12/2008 4:07 PM by online now NightlyDreams Xanga True Member - reply

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I don't smoke, but I still think everything which you take into your body should have a list of ingredients. I have a lot of allergies, and while I am not allergic to cigarette smoke per se, I am allergic to some of those ingredients above... other people may be also. And beyond cigarettes, there are many things which don't accurately list their ingredients which cause me no end of trouble with my allergies. Shampoo for instance.

Listing all the ingredients in cigarettes really has nothing to do with whether their ingredients are toxic to everyone. Cigarettes are a carcinogen, there's not even a question of whether that is true or false; An ingredient list doesn't change that. On an individual basis however, people should be able to avoid things they are allergic to by a responsible policy of accurate ingredient lists.
Posted 5/15/2008 12:44 PM by harmony0stars Xanga True Member Xanga Lifetime Member - reply


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