eagerquit
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07 Mar 2018
12 Mar 2018
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Six days smoke free and counting. Not so many cravings today. I have now
saved $75.33 not spent on cigarettes and ancillary expenses. I was curious as to how arsenic comes to be included in cigarettes and found
out it is in the pesticides sprayed on tobacco plants by the farms. It is a
cancer causing and poisonous substance. The following is from https://www.verywellmind.com/how-arsenic-in-cigarette-smoke-can-hurt-you-2824727
Inorganic arsenic is present in mainstream
tobacco smoke and presumably in sidestream smoke as well.
Depending on average particle size, inorganic arsenic has an estimated
atmospheric lifetime of nine days.
Indoor concentrations of inorganic arsenic can be much higher than outdoors
and is a constituent of third hand
smoke.
According to a report from the California Air Resources Board and the
Department of Health Services, smokers breathe in approximately 0.8 to 2.4
micrograms of inorganic arsenic per pack of 20 cigarettes, with approximately
40 percent of it being deposited in the respiratory tract. Of that amount,
75-80 percent is absorbed by alveoli in the lungs, making the overall
absorption of inhaled arsenic in cigarette smoke approximately 30 to 35
percent.
Arsenic, along with a host of other toxic
chemicals in cigarette smoke exposes smokers (and non-smokers) who breathe
in the secondhand smoke produced by a burning cigarette to
cancer-causing agents and poisons.
To date, researchers have identified more than 7,000
chemicals including 250 poisonous and 70 carcinogenic compounds in cigarette
smoke.