Smoking & How to Quit - Tools - What's in a Cigarette

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Find out what you ingest when you smoke, or when you are exposed to secondhand smoke.

Enter the letter next to the definition in the box next to the chemical name. Click the 'submit' button to see your results.

Definition	Your Answer	Chemical
Preserves dead bodies.		A) Cyanide B) Tar C) You see it everyday when you throw out your trash because it's also used to make garbage bags. D) Formaldehyde E) This is a poison used to kill bugs. F) Found in batteries. G) Nicotine H) Carbon monoxide I) Benzene J) You can use it to take off your nail polish, but you also inhale it when you smoke cigarettes. K) You clean your house with this chemical. Don't smoke it!
You can also find this ingredient in rat poison.
The drug that makes it hard for you to quit smoking. It's used in other things too, like the bug spray you use on your plants.
See those yellow stains on a smoker's teeth? The same chemical is used to pave streets!
Helps your car run, because it's also used to make gasoline.
You wouldn't stand behind a car with exhaust coming out, would you? This exhaust is also in cigarettes.
Hydrogen cyanide
Vinyl chloride
Lead
Ammonia
Acetone

Content last updated March 19, 2008.

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