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| Facts about the Lethal Ingredients in Cigarettes | |
| arsenic |
Perhaps the most famous dramatic reference to using arsenic as a murder weapon is in the play Arsenic and Old Lace where two elderly women laced their elderberry wine and poisoned gentlemen callers. Comic drama notwithstanding, arsenic poisoning has been used as murder weapon since the Middle Ages. In the 19 Century arsenic was named "inheritance powder" because of the propensity of family members to use it to kill each other off to ensure they were bequeathed the full inheritance. In 2003 several members of a church congregation in New Sweden Maine, became ill and one man died from arsenic poisoning. It was determined that the church coffee pot had been laced with arsenic. No one has ever been charged with the crime although the main suspect did commit suicide a few days later (but not with arsenic!) |
| polonium-210 |
The most famous case of polonium-210 radiation poisoning was the case of Russian ex-pat Alexander Litvinenko. He was a former member of the Russian KGB and had sought political asylum in Great Britain. While living there he authored books that supposedly exposed terrorist acts of the Russian government, that led to the rise in power of Vladimir Putin. He fell ill quite suddenly (Nov 2006) and died within 3 weeks. His body was found to have been poisoned with polonium-210 and subsequent investigations discovered polonium-210 in his teacup. He is believed to be the first confirmed victim of a lethal polonium-210 induced acute radiation syndrome. |
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hydrogen cyanide
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Hydrogen cyanide was used by the Nazi regime in the mass murders and gas chambers at Auschwitz and Majdanek. |
| carbon monoxide |
Depressed individuals have been known to commit suicide by asphyxiation with carbon monoxide. Running a car motor in an enclosed garage will fill the entire space with this noxious gas. In the 1994 movie "The Client" it starts with a suicide scene where the young boy witnesses a man trying to take his own life by hooking up a hose to his car exhaust and running the hose into the car. Carbon Monoxide was used by the Nazi regime in the mass murders and gas chambers at Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor. |
These are the types of lethal chemicals in cigarettes. So if you are a smoker why aren't you dead yet?
In answer to that question it is important to remember that many smokers are dead. They are not reading this, but you are and you aren't dead yet!
WHY? because the levels of the lethal ingredients in cigarettes are low enough not to kill you with a single puff.
Smokers often use this information as smoking fiction:
The accumulation of lethal chemicals in cigarettes occurs over a long period. Every cigarette gives you at least 10 puffs. 20 cigarettes a day gives you 200 puffs. 365 days a year gives you 73,000 puffs per year! Do the math, calculate the risks. You aren't dead.
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