Cigarettes can contain whale vomit!

30 Dec

In 1994, the five major American cigarette companies were asked to submit a list of the additives they use in cigarettes to the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Up until this point, the ingredients had been a closely guarded secret. This list contained no less than 599 additives!

With things like apple and apricot extract, bay leaf, butter, chocolate, fennel, honey, rum and raisin being on the list, things don’t seem so bad. That is until you spot some of the less attractive ingredients.

One of those on the list is Ambergris Tincture, something more commonly known as whale vomit. Ambergris is the aggregate secretion of the bile glands into the intestine of a sperm whale, expelled (one way or the other) as a solid mass. It’s used in adding scent to perfume too but at least we don’t actively inhale that!

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Karen

Why in the world would cigarette companies have to add something like Whale Vomit to their product???? Unbelievable the things they are allowed to GET AWAY with!!!! The food and drug administration really should further investigate and do something about the ingredients that are legally being put into products that eventually enter the human body. Not only with cigarettes but other products as well. For instance, did you know that they allow carbon monoxide in bagged salad and meat products. SICK!!!