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1. Along with other addictive ingredients, cigarettes also include the following: Cyanide (used to poison rats); Formaldehyde, (used to preserve dead frogs and human bodies); and ammonia (used to scrub toilet bowls and disinfect bathrooms).
2. Smoking is the most preventable cause of mortality.
3. On June 17, 1998 The U.S. Senate refused to vote on a bill to reduce teen smoking. The President supported legislation introduced by recent presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) that contained the strongest anti-youth smoking provisions in our history -- legislation that would cut youth smoking in half over the next five years. When Senators could have sided with families and children, a majority of Senators chose instead to side with the tobacco industry, and blocked a vote on this important legislation.
4. Some tobacco companies manipulate and adjust nicotine fixes. By enhancing the effect of the nicotine through reuse of chemical additives like ammonia, this process is known as "impact boosting." This allows for nicotine to be more rapidly absorbed in the lung and therefore affect the brain and central nervous system.
5. The decline in adult smoking has moved the tobacco industry to recruit more than one million new smokers a year, about 3,000 per day, most of whom are children and adolescents.
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