Following is a list of the '''599 potential cigarette additives''' that the five major American cigarette companies 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. '''