Do you like licorice? Most kids do, but smokers would not be amused if you told them they were smoking it in the additive licorice root glycyrrhizic acid used to flavor and keep tobacco moist, which the American Health Foundation says gives off polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons when burned. That means smokers are inhaling a known cancer-causing substance along with their aroma-filled tobacco smoke.
Take caramel, added to give flavor, which smokers believe comes from their favorite tobacco mix. When the burning end of a cigarette heats the caramel, or any other of the many types of sugar used in the manufacture of cigarettes, produces catechol which, when combined with some of the other additives, strengthens their carcinogenic properties.
Gosh..... so long as they don't mess with my Hershey Bars :8o:
Mercy
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[B]My Quit Date: [/B]1/21/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 346
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 6,920
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $1,546.62
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