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What are the ingredients of cigarettes?

The main components of cigarettes are: tar, smoke, nicotine.

1, tar

is the product of aerobic combustion of organic substances in cigarettes. Including some hydrocarbons and hydrocarbon oxides, sulfides and nitrides and other mixtures, but also some heavy metals, such as chromium, cadmium, arsenic and so on.

2, smoke

Mainly carbon monoxide, hydrocyanic acid, nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide, acetone, acetaldehyde and other gases.

3, nicotine

Some data show that the content of nicotine in a cigarette can be poisoned to death by a mouse, and a pack of cigarettes can be poisoned to death by nicotine in a cow.