1. What Exactly is in a Cigarette?
Ingredient Common Use
Carbon monoxide Car exhausts
Copper Electric Wiring
Tar Roads
Nicotine Pesticides
Acetone Nail polish remover
Ammonia Toilet cleaner
Arsenic Rat Poisoning
Benzene Lighter Fuel
Formaldehyde Embalming fluid
Methanol Rocket fuel
Radon Radioactive gas
Hydrogen cyanide Poison in gas chamber
Cadium Batteries
Stearic acid Candle wax

2. Health Risks
• Emphysema
• Coronary Heart Disease
• Heart Attacks
• Pneumonia
• Chronic Bronchitis
• Strokes
• Aneurysms
• Cataracts
• Asthma
• Infertility
• Cancers of the:
oropharynx, larynx,
esophagus, trachea,
bronchus, lungs, stomach,
pancreas, kidney, ureter,
cervix, and bladder

3. Why You Should Quit Smoking
• Health:
Live longer, live better!
• Money:
Save an average of $3,000 a
year!
• Loved Ones:
Every cigarette you smoke puts
those around you at risk for disease!