Ready to QUIT SMOKING?
Saturday, February 27, 2010 | Author: aL3xTh1aN4eVeR
Source from http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/articles/20100106161537/Article/index_html 

Other than tobacco, these are some of the things inside a cigarette:

- Ammonia: Household cleaner

- Angelica root extract: Known to cause cancer in animals

- Arsenic: Used in rat poisons

- Benzene: For making dyes, synthetic rubber

- Butane gas: Used in lighter fluid

- Carbon monoxide: Poisonous gas

- Cadmium: Used in batteries

- Cyanide: Deadly poison

- DDT: A banned insecticide

- Ethyl Furoate: Causes liver damage in animals

- Lead: Poisonous in high doses

- Formaldehyde: Used to preserve dead specimens

- Methoprene: Insecticide

- Megastigmatrienone: Chemical naturally found in grapefruit juice

- Maltitol: Sweetener for diabetics

- Napthalene: Ingredient in mothballs

- Methyl isocyanate: Its accidental release killed 2000 people in Bhopal, India, in 1984

- Polonium: Cancer-causing radioactive element
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