< Home  < Risk Factors             Moth Balls     Nail Polish Remover Fertilizer     Toilet Bowl Cleaner Disinfectant Spray     Rat Poison Paint Stripper     Insecticide Lighter Fluid   Candle Wax   If you wouldn't eat these ingredients on your pizza... then why would you smoke them in a cigarette? The following is a list of some of the 4,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke. Nicotine * insecticide Carbon Monoxide car exhaust Tar street paving material Vinyl Chloride PVC pipe         Stearic Acid candle wax Nitrous Oxide Phenols disinfectant Nitrobenzene gasoline additive Naphthalene mothballs         Methanol rocket fuel Hydrogen Cyanide gas chamber poison Hexamine charcoal lighter Formaldehyde preservative for body tissues         Ethanol alcohol DDT insecticide Butane cigarette lighter fluid Cadmium rechargeable batteries         Arsenic rat poison Ammonia toilet bowl cleaner Acetone nail polish remover Mercury thermometers * Nicotine, the main ingredient, is more addictive than any illegal drug, including cocaine and heroin.