Chemicals in cigarettes, YUK

TAC · April 9, 2014

I'm posting just one of the many, many toxic chemicals in cigarettes, please feel free to post another.

Arsenic:

Arsenic and many of its compounds are especially potent poisons. Arsenic disrupts ATP production through several mechanisms. At the level of the citric acid cycle, arsenic inhibits pyruvate dehydrogenase and by competing with phosphate it uncouples oxidative phosphorylation, thus inhibiting energy-linked reduction of NAD+, mitochondrial respiration, and ATP synthesis. Hydrogen peroxide production is also increased, which might form reactive oxygen species and oxidative stress. These metabolic interferences lead to death from multi-system organ failure (see arsenic poisoning) probably from necrotic cell death, not apoptosis. A post mortem reveals brick red colored mucosa, due to severe hemorrhage. Although arsenic causes toxicity, it can also play a protective role

(From Wikipedia)

jimmy · April 9, 2014

http://www.tricountycessation.org/tobaccofacts/links.html click on this link then click on tobbaco ingrendents on the left it will give you a small list of things in cigs cristobal can post a lot more thing in them .