10 Shocking facts you didn’t know about smoking tobacco (+Pics)

4. Additives and chemicals

There are roughly five-hundred and ninety-nine additives in cigarettes distributed and packaged within the United States. All of these chemical compounds have been approved as additives to food. However, these have not been approved by testing them when burning. As these chemical properties change when burnt.

Cigarettes also contain over five thousand chemicals, including at least thirty-three known human carcinogens like benzene, arsenic, cadmium, furan and others.

The United States, as a non-party of the World Health Organization Framework Convention of Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) unsuccessfully opposed a ban on deceptive and misleading description such as ultra-light and low-tar, which infringe on trademark protections.