Smoking
One of the most famous smoking tools is what is known as a cigarette or tobacco roll, which is accepted by millions of people of both sexes, as many resorts to smoking, according to them, for many reasons, which is either to improve mood or to vent anger, or a kind of prestige and tradition, and yet all are ignorant For many people, the components of cigarette rolls, which contain dangerous components that affect human health.
Throughout this article, we will talk about the components of a cigarette or the ingredients of tobacco; It is the main material in the smoke roll. It usually contains five hundred different types of compounds.
Tobacco components
Nicotine: It is the basic and active chemical that is naturally formed in the tobacco plant and is one of the toxic alkaline substances that cause compulsive addiction, and its negative effect is the imbalance of the functions of the body organs, as it speeds up the heartbeat and respiration, raises blood pressure, and reduces the appetite for food as a result of the imbalance resulting in The Hunger Center; One cigarette contains as much as one milligram of nicotine.
Tar: It is a sticky substance that turns black when burning, and is considered one of the particles that deposit in the lung, which later causes lung cancer after smoking addiction, as tar is a compound of hydrocarbons, i.e. organic substances of hydrogen, carbon, and benzopyrene, i.e. hydrogenated charcoal.
Carbon monoxide: It is the gas responsible for disrupting the transport of oxygen in the blood, and it also causes heart disease due to its combination with nicotine, which results in the deposition of fats and cholesterol in the blood, which leads to the occurrence of blood clots.
Other substances in tobacco Many toxic substances are added to tobacco, such as sulfuric acid, arsenic, which is a very toxic substance, biotin gas, which is usually used in cigar lighter, methanol, lead, carbon dioxide gas that results from combustion, toluene, which is a solvent that is used in factories, and acetone, Ammonia, and cadmium is a heavy metal, and DDT is the main material for pesticides, naphthalene, hydrogen cyanide, and formalin.
Tobacco products
Among the products in which tobacco is used are cigars and cigarettes, pipe tobacco, hookah tobacco for hookah, and smokeless hookworm tobacco. Cigarettes by the type of tobacco used or by mixing it with other types of tobacco leaves that differ according to the region in which they are grown.
