Here are just 16 more reasons to quit smoking

When you burn a cigarette that is typically made with approximately 600 ingredients, you release more than 7000 chemicals into the environment. Many of these (atleast 69) are proven to cause cancer. Here are 16 such chemicals that are also found in other household items and are enough reason for you to quit smoking tobacco.

1. Acetone – found in nail polish remover
2. Acetic Acid –  an ingredient in hair dye
3. Ammonia – a common household cleaner
4. Arsenic – used in rat poison
5. Benzene – found in rubber cement
6. Butane – used in lighter fluid
7. Cadmium – active component in battery acid
8. Carbon Monoxide – released in car exhaust fumes
9. Formaldehyde – embalming fluid
10. Hexamine – found in barbecue lighter fluid
11. Lead – used in batteries
12. Naphthalene – an ingredient in mothballs
13. Methanol – a main component in rocket fuel
14. Nicotine – used as insecticide
15. Tar – material for paving roads
16. Toluene – used to manufacture pain

If you are surrounded by smokers you are inhaling these harmful chemicals. Know more about passive smoking in our post Are you a Second-hand Smoker?