Ingredients

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Ingredients	Description	Effect		Nutritional Value
Tar	Gives flavor & used to pave roads and driveways	Emphysema, bronchitis, prevents cilia in throat from sweeping out mucous.		None
Nicotine	Causes addiction	Irregular heart beat		None
DDT	Insecticide	Causes fat to block blood vessels		None
Carbon Monoxide	Gas from car exhaust	Increases heart rate & blood pressure		None
Formaldehyde	Animal preservation	Cold or flu-like symptoms		None
Cyanide	Rat poison	Rapid breathing, Restlessness, Dizziness, Weakness, Headache, Nausea and vomiting, Rapid heart rate.		None
Ammonia	Household cleaner		Lung damage	None

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Sources:

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company http://www.rjrt.com/TI/TITar_Nic_summary.asp

DDT a Banned Insecticide http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/mom/ddt/ddt.html

General Fact Sheet On Smoking www.quitnow.info.au/gen_fact.html

Smoking Health Hazards http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/body/smoking/article2.html

About Tobacco http://www.viable-herbal.com/herbdesc4/1tobacco.htm 

Formaldehyde http://www.nsc.org/ehc/indoor/formald.htm

Facts About Cyanide http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/cyanide/basics/facts.asp

Ammonia http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/tfacts126.html