What’s Really In Your Cigarette?
More and more everyday people are
beginning to smoke cigarettes, but do they really know what is inside that
cigarette? The Wall Street Journal just released an article titled, “What’s
really in your cigarette?” This article goes over the many ingredients inside a
cigarette that many smokers, and non-smokers are unaware of. Don’t you ever
wonder why there is never a full list of ingredients on the side of a carton of
cigarettes? It is probably because the list simply would not fit. Some
ingredients released in the article include, Glycerol, Propylene glycol, Cocoa and cocoa shells, Licorice,
Diammonium phosphate, Urea, Menthol, St. John's Bread, Chocolate,
Potassium sorbate, Prune juice and concentrate Levulinic acid, Angelica Root , Dandelion
root solid extract. I bet most of these ingredients you have never heard
of in anything. It is no wonder the big cigarette companies tried for years to
hide these ingredients from the public. Wouldn’t you do the same? And lets not
forget about Amonia too. Many people probably see this article and laugh at the
fact that people are really dumb enough to be smoking these death sticks;
however the other half reading this are everyday smokers who may or may not
quit someday. I believe articles like these should be posted as frequently as
possible to hopefully put an end to smokers and cigarettes containing horrible
deadly ingredients. Even the paper used to roll these cigarettes is not just
paper, it contain bleaches and glues that are harmful as well. Still today
exact formulas for cigarettes are still kept a secret and if the big cigarette
companies were smart they would keep if that way. Many wonder if these deadly
toxic filled cigarettes will ever be abolished, my guess is no. I believe too
many people n society are already addicted even politicians, and a law to make
cigarettes illegal would cause an uproar in society and a major loss in money
for the government, being as they tax cigarette companies almost more than any
others. Considering all the deaths caused by cigarettes and all of their
harmful long term affects you would think that the government would do
something to stop it, but we will see no such thing, in our lifetimes at least.
It is sad to think that knowing of the thousands or lethal ingredients inside
cigarettes, and the known harmful affects they have that people still try
cigarettes everyday, and for the most part become addicted.
References
Procter
(2012 Sept.1) What’s really in your cigarette? The Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444914904577619413844991748.html?mod=quicklinks_taxcliff
I think you have a gorgeous example of analysis. It has a lot of good descriptive facts and went through the list of things we were supposed to do. It pointed out the audience, told the readers what the writer was writing about, told the writer's purpose, and pointed to some sources that the writer may have used. You had really cool details and a nice style of writing. It made it super crystal and I understood it perfectly. Your analysis made me want to dig deeper and to hunt down some facts on the whole cigarette ingredients shenanigans.
ReplyDeleteYour writing opened up my mind to the many dangers and gross facts about cigarettes. Inhaling bleached paper and glue?! Who would have thought of such a thing! Also, prune juice in cigarettes! That is just disgusting! Prunes are a gross and unnecessary produce that should stay on their plant of origin and keep pruning! They are creepy looking over grown raisins and it would seem impossible to turn them into a juice; but cigarette manufacturers have obviously found a sinister way and then incorporated it into their diabolical formula.
To digress even further on the cigarette manufacturers choice of ingredients, why cocoa shells? I'm wondering, after reading your analysis, what the dangerous effects are of inhaling cocoa shells and licorice? And what is with this St. John's bread stuff? Is there something so great about St. John's bread that it absolutely must be St. John's and not Wonder Bread? I don't think I ever thought that inhaling cocoa shells and licorice along with some St. John's bread wrapped in bleached papers would give you lung cancer. But thank you, Brandan! You seriously opened my eyes and gave a peek in on the dirty secrets of huge cigarette corporations.