The controversy over smoking ban continues. Some support it and others do not. Regardless of the wishes of each other I would try to reach some objective findings and not opinions based on what I believe or the argument that because we older ones to know what we do and we have to ban anything, to reach conclusions that we can serve as a reference when assessing what it would be best.
Although all more or less know what these are, first of all give an overview of the main components of snuff, we have to resort to governmental entities, Spanish or foreign, or research labs to learn that found in cigarettes. Have been discovered around 4,000 chemicals between the components of snuff and at least 40 of them are carcinogenic to humans. This is totally objective, like it or not fully proven.
Nicotine is an organic compound, an alkaloid found in the snuff plant (Nicotiana tabacum), with high concentration in their leaves. Is about 5% by weight of the plant. It is a powerful poison (deadly dose of 50mg. Into a vein to a 70 kg) and even used in many insecticides (fumigant for greenhouses). At low concentrations, the substance is a stimulant and is one of the main factors of addiction to snuff. It is soluble in water. chronic inhalation of nicotine plays an important tolerance and this explains why a smoker can handle up to 20 mg of nicotine per hour.
In addition to nicotine, snuff plant produces other alkaloids namely: 1. Nornicotina. 2. Oxinicotina. 3. Nicotirina. 4. Anabasine. 5. Nicotinic acid.
Carbon monoxide: A colorless gas with high toxic power released during the combustion of snuff and cigarette paper.
The air has a concentration of 1 to 30 particles of carbon monoxide per million (ppm), the car exhaust rising from 30 to 80,000 while cigarette smoke leads to an average of 50,000 ppm, reaching the alveoli quantities than normal. One of the most dangerous special is that hemoglobin is 250 times more avidly than oxygen, carbon monoxide, producing the compound of carboxyhemoglobin in the blood.
The monoxide interferes with oxygen transport through the blood and deposit in tissues, causing hypoxia, aggravating the vasoconstriction caused by nicotine.
Formaldehyde, formic acid, phenols, acideínas are released in the combustion products of snuff, act by altering the defense mechanisms of the airways and obstruct the function of lung epithelium.
Ammonia: Component cleaning
Arsenic: Poison rodenticides content
Butane: Domestic Fuel
Cyanide: Used in the gas chamber
Formaldehyde: preservative
Methane: Fuel used in rocket
Cadmium in batteries
Tar is dark and sticky substance responsible for maintaining the nicotine and other chemicals up to snuff our lungs. We could say that is the vehicle in which all the poisons found in cigarettes, traveling to our bloodstream.
Benzene, radon and other junk:
