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Anything that has a plethora of potentially life threatening chemicals in them can’t be good for you. Considering that people that only nicotine is the bad guy in cigarettes need to take a look at the list we’ve compiled for you.

There are nearly a hundred chemicals and at least forty whose effects are known to be harmful to the human body. Such chemicals should be avoided at all costs.

• Ammonia (toilet cleaner): Used as a flavoring, frees nicotine from tobacco turning it into a gas, found in dry cleaning fluids.

• Acetone (nail polish remover): Fragrant volatile liquid ketone, used as a solvent, for example, nail polish remover - found in cigarette smoke.

• Tar: Particulate matter drawn into lungs when you inhale on a lighted cigarette. Once inhaled, smoke condenses and about 70 per cent of the tar in the smoke is deposited in the smoker's lungs.

• Carbon Monoxide (CO) (car exhaust fumes):An odorless, tasteless and poisonous gas, rapidly fatal in large amounts - it's the same gas that comes out of car exhausts and is the main gas in cigarette smoke, formed when the cigarette is lit.

• Arsenic (rat poison)

• Hydrogen Cyanide (gas chamber poison)

• Benzene (petrol additive): A colorless cyclic hydrocarbon obtained from coal and petroleum, used as a solvent in fuel and in chemical manufacture - and contained in cigarette smoke. It is a known carcinogen and is associated with leukemia.

• Formaldehyde (embalming fluid): A colorless liquid, highly poisonous, used to preserve dead bodies - also found in cigarette smoke. It is known to cause cancer, respiratory, skin and gastrointestinal problems.

• Cyanide: It is a chemical compound that contains a cyano group.

• Benzene: also known as Benzol is an organic chemical compound that is a flammable and colorless liquid.

• Formaldehyde: is a compound in the form of gas that has a very pungent smell.

• Methanol (wood alcohol): is the simplest alcohol that is also known as methyl alcohol.

• Acetylene (the fuel used in welding torches): is an unsaturated chemical compound that is also the simplest alkyne hydrocarbon.

• toxic trace metals (nickel*, lead, cadmium*, chromium*, arsenic* and selenium)

• tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs): N-nitrosonornicotine*, nicotine-derived nitrosamino ketone (NNK)*, N-nitrosoanatabine* and N-nitrosoanabasine*.

• aromatic amines: 1-aminonapthalene, 2-aminonapthalene, 3-aminobiphenyl and 4-aminobiphenyl*

• benzo[a]pyrene*

• volatile carbonyls (formaldehyde*, acetaldehyde*, acetone, acrolein, propionaldehyde, crotonaldehyde, methyl ethyl ketone and butyraidehyde)

• 10 selected basic semi-volatiles: pyridine and quinoline

• 11 phenolic compounds: hydroquinone, resorcinol, catechol, phenol, m+p-cresol, and o-cresol

• 13 selected volatiles: 1,3-butadiene*, isoprene, acrylonitrile*, benzene*, toluene and styrene.

*carcinogenic (cancer causing)