Another Reason to Quit Smoking

According to the American Chemical Society's journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, scientists have found that the chemical extracts contained in cigarette butts can prevent pipe corrosion. If the chemicals in cigarettes are so binding that they can harden a strong steel pipe and keep it from breaking what do you really think it is doing to the soft tissues of you lungs and your delicate body? My mouth flew open in amazement when I read the new usage for cigarette butts that China has found.

We already knew some of the dangers that smoking can cause and the chemicals contained therein so everyone should know that the industrial chemicals that cigarette have in them have real life industrial uses and protecting pipes is one of them. Let's go over some of the chemical that cigarettes contain and some of the chemicals industrial uses:

Ammonia

Quite tasty. We all know that ammonia is a cleaning solvent and used in some fertilizers but did you know that it is a colorless gas?

Formaldehyde

One of the more common uses for this one besides cigarettes is to preserve dead corpses. In one laboratory study, rats when exposed to formaldehyde became sick with nasal cancer.

Tar

This is one of the chemicals that really make your lungs absorb and deposit the smoke into your lungs. This is the same tar that is used for streets and roads.

Fennel and Fenugreek

I've uses these two herbs because I have PCOS, but I am a woman. I guess I understand why men's sperm count lowers and their testosterone drops when smoking cigarettes. Fennel and fenugreek have both been ancient remedies for stimulating breast growth in women and to make a body more feminine. Now men have to worry about lung cancer and breast growth when smoking cigarettes. Great.

I don't have to beat you over the head to tell you that cigarettes are poison and so is the smoke and now you see the butts from them are as well. In China where the study discovered it's usage for pipes, they said cigarette butts were being tested because they were killing so many fish because of its toxic chemicals and they were trying to find ways to recycle the butts to get it out of its water supply. I would hope that anyone reading this will think twice before they fire one up next time.