Where can I find the exact chemicals and proportions released in the average cigarette?
Is it possible that due to the daily number of cigarettes smoked and the chemicals released, that they would be in violation of air quality safety standards?
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That would be hard to determine exact amount due to type and quality of tobacco, filtered or non - filtered, light, ultra light, slim, regular each should release a different amount in the smoke in my opinion. The chemicals released in the smoke are around 95 different chemicals( note a lot is absorbed in the lungs). Around 45 of those are carcinogens the rest do not seem to be causes of cancer, but may still be unhealthy.
Check this two sites the first gives a study done in Canada on just the smoke from the lit cigarette over a year which estimated 52 billion smoked and just the lit part making around 500 tonnes of pollution not counting exhaling the smoke.
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cach…
And this one which if I understood it all gives you the chemicals released into the air both from the lit part and exhaling ( mainstream) . Now I would point out there is around 4000 chemicals in a cigarette which means most of them stay in the body.
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cach…
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