What is Cigarette Tar?
Smoking Facts About the Harmful Effects of Tobacco Combustion

Cigarette tar is one of the main harmful effects of tobacco combustion that is incomplete.

Inhaling tar is one of the dangers of cigarette smoking as it contains many of the carcinogenic ingredients in cigarettes.

Harmful Effects of Tobacco Combustion

Cigarette manufacturers make their cigarettes so that the tobacco will smolder and not light up like a bon fire. They keep the tobacco moisture level high enough, and wrap the cigarette tightly enough to keep the tobacco smoldering rather than burning with a large flame.

The result is cigarette tar.

Composed of the solid matter that is not completely burned but carried in the smoke, the tar carries most of the chemicals in cigarettes that cause cellular damage and lead to cancer and tumour formation.

At the higher temperatures in a cigarette the tar is melted and almost "dissolved" in the smoke, but in your body it becomes solid again and causes a lot of the characteristic staining such as nicotine stains on the fingers of heavy smokers or yellow smoker's teeth.

Smoking Facts About Cigarette Tar

• burning of tobacco generates more than 150 billion tar particles per cubic inch.


• a good drag on a cigarette will extract almost 90 percent of the particulate matter and gases which go straight to your lungs with a good inhale.


• lower tar brands have not been shown to result in fewer harmful smoking effects.


• It is the hot tar that burns the respiratory passage ways and plugs up the lungs causing emphysema, chronic bronchitis and lung cancer which are specific smoking related diseases.

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