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Cigarette additives

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*[[Additive-related documents of interest]]
Following is a list of the 599 potential cigarette additives submitted to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 1994 by the five major American cigarette companies. The list used to be confidential, and has now has been made public. Many of these ingredients are approved as food additives, but their properties are changed when burned.
'''Note that this is a list of cigarette ''ingredients'', not of chemicals generated by a cigarette after it burns. '''
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
If you have information on this additive (what it is derived from, why it is added to cigarettes, its fate when burned, etc.) please help us by contributing that information. The links appearing To help you in red do not yet have finding out more information added on themthese additives, search boxes are inserted in each article to assist you in accessing information about these additives directly from the tobacco industry's documents.
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