In tobacco smoke there are pesticides

It seems that tobacco is not dangerous enough to warn people, researchers have recently found 3 pesticides in its smoke.

There are 3 types of pesticides in cigarette smoke
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These chemicals (often used in tobacco farms under the permission of the US Environmental Protection Agency EPA) cause damage to the human endocrine system, including the thyroid gland, other glands and other hormones that they secrete.

However, it has been known until now that such pesticides are still intact through the process of burning, burning and depositing in cigarette smoke. These include:

- Flumetralin, a suspected substance that destroys the endocrine system banned from use in tobacco in Europe.

- Pendimethalin, a substance that destroys the endocrine system affecting the thyroid gland

- Trifluralin, an endocrine system that affects metabolism and fertility.

The following two compounds are also suspected to be human carcinogens.

"There is no information about inhalation at low levels of these substances," said team member Kent Voorhees from Mines, Colorado. "And there is also no data on the risk of combining these pesticides together, or with more than 4,700 other compounds identified in tobacco."

T. An