In 2009, the Food and Drug Administration gained authority to regulate tobacco products, and now they will soon be exercising that ability. Already releasing preliminary guidelines for the tobaccoย industry that can educate consumers on exactly what is in cigarettes, the FDA is making it so tobacco companies will have to report on the amount of harmful and unsafe ingredientsย used in their products.
The Dangerous Ingredients in Tobacco Products
Within one year, the FDA plans to share information on chemical amounts, while tobacco makers will be required to report on the amount of 93 substances used in their products. This means that harmful ingredients used such as ammonia and formaldehyde will need to be made known to the public. This decision will certainly ignite a slew of ingredient-based information regarding tobacco products.
ย โWe areย forging new territory to ensure that tobacco companies provide accurate information and do not mislead American consumers. We are committed to stopping such practices that may cause people to start or continue using tobacco products that could lead to preventable disease and death,”ย FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said in a statement.
There are over 4,000 individual compounds identified in tobacco and tobacco smoke, with at least 60 of them being known carcinogens.ย How would you feel after finding out that with every cigarette comes a dose of insecticide, car exhaust, gas chamber poison, ant poison, floor cleaner, mothballs, and nuclear weapon material? The fact is, there are hundreds of chemicals in tobacco products (and cigarettes especially) that people don’t even know about.
- Insecticide โ nicotine
- Car exhaust โ carbon monoxide
- Gas chamber poison โ hydrogen cyanide
- Ant poison โ ammonia
- Mothballs โ naphthalene
- Nuclear power โ radioactive compounds
While this kind of information won’t be responsible for ending the bad habit of smoking for the majority of individuals, it may serve to kick the habit for many. Even while smoking and tobacco use is already known to cause various cancers such as lung cancer, throat cancer, and stomach cancer, the health damaging aspects of smoking aren’t enough for people to quit. But now, seeing “formaldehyde”, “lead”, and “arsenic” on the label may just be enough to cause many people to finally quit smoking and tobacco use.
And yet they will not make it so GMO is labeled?……i guess the tobacco guys forgot to sign that last check huh??….
Of all the comments, yours makes the most sense.
In Europe there's a law called the "Purity Law". It states that cigarettes can contain……TOBACCO and THAT'S ALL. No such law exists in the US so cigarettes have become a was of deliberately poisoning people so as to up the profits of the Pharma industry and Medical industry.
The other problem with the US tobacco products is the FILTERS – they contain lots of CHEMICALS, so they're NOT a filters per se, but rather a DELIVERY SYSTEM. There was a recall on Marlboro back in the 80's. I remember it distinctly, because people were getting sick because the chemicals in THE FILTERS were screwed up. That's when I gave up filters.
I now roll my own and buy European tobacco. Until the time comes when I want to quit, I'll avoid American companies products. But one thing is certain, they'll have to increase the SIZE of the cigarette packs in the US in order to have enough ROOM to list all the ingredients on the packs.
tobacco is not the issue, the paper is. Until the are required to list the ingredients of the paper, and filter, the issue still remains troubling.
this is a fact, my brother worked for the worlds largest manufacturer of cigarette paper (company located in New Jersey) and he said this "if people only knew what chemicals were in the paper tobacco is rolled into they would STOP SMOKING)……AMEN
Your brother is an asshole. Willing to subvert for money I hope your whole genetic make up vanishes from this fucking earth, and family.
ANONYMOUS INTELLIGENCE GROUP OCCU-3.1416, DISCOVERED FROM TOBACCO RE-DRYING TECHNICIANS, THAT BULK TOBACCO IS SEALED IN A VACUUM TREATMENT WAREHOUSE, AND FUMIGATED WITH CYANIDE GAS TO KILL TOBACCO EATING WORMS, WHOSE EXISTENCE IN THE INSECT WORLD IS TOP SECRET!!!
Do any of you actually know what smoking arsenic, ammonia, radioactive compounds, carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, naphthalene, lead and formaldehyde would do to you. If this were true I'd be amazed people don't drop dead after a single cigarette.
I'm sure they add a lot of chemicals to cigarettes but this is just straight out propaganda. Stop feeding people these lies and maybe they'll actually start recognizing the actual dangers of smoking. This is what is makes people smoke. Not seeing someone smoke in a movie, not hearing about smoking in a song. It's waking up to the harsh reality that our governments, big businesses and the media are corrupt to their very core. That we have been lied to our entire lives by the people that have taught us everything. We lose all faith in what they have taught us, what anyone can teach us. It's a vicious cycle of ignorance that must stop and the first step is to seek out knowledge for yourself.
Stop relying on the media for facts and information. Try not just to learn things but to understand them for yourselves. This has become a concerning global issue that is detrimental to the very society we live in, one which must be solved if not for the future of mankind. Switch off your televisions, initiate your synapses and turn your empty shell into a learning loving living being.
The corporations that own, er, I mean, the people that run the FDA must think we're all fools. One can tolerate trace amounts of anything, just ask 'em, 'cause according to the FDA:
Polluting the entire North-American continent with heavy radio-isotopes – no problem.
Taking pharmaceuticals with often devastating and sometimes fatal side-effects – no problem.
Driving cars/trucks from which emanate 2,500 different carcinogens while belching vast amounts of carbon monoxide & soot – no problem.
Consuming genetically modified organisms while remaining uninformed that your doing so – no problem.
Consuming seafood contaminated with heavy metals, radio-isotopes and pharmaceuticals that haven't been in the market even ten years yet – no problem.
Breathing so-called 'clean' air that actually contains over 10,000 kinds of mutagens, micro-organisms, particulates of feces and other pollutants – no problem.
But smoke some tobacco? now THAT'S A PROBLEM!!!
The real corruption of the cigarette has occured when certain people conspired to make so called "Fire Safe Cigarettes."
The definition is b*lls*it, the sticks now taste like glue, no matter the brand name, probably cause more problems then they claim to solve, and many people on the web are complaining of health issues brought on by these so called FSC!
Check your pack, it'll say on the bottom or somewhere, FSC!
so, basically the fda can ban drugs that may be a bit unsafe for our health but the benefit of cures will prevail BUT they will not ban something that has no health benefit and will absolutely kill you, in painful and long term ways. i think someone needs to look at this government agency and revamp it a bit.
I have spent the last hour or two trying to find out what is in largo pipe tobacco! Why can’t I find a list of ingredients???
Good efforts, I greatly look forward to future updates.
Organic tobacco ingredients? Added?
I smoke organic .says nothing added.
Lies?
Amen is a god king from the east. He is named over and over in the bibles. look for yourself. bad temper too