OCR Text |
Show CANCER Answer, line A policeman writes: "1 am a heavy cigarette smoker and up until now, I haven't been impressed by the anti-cigarette anti-cigarette people enough to quit. Bui now a friend tells me that he read that cigarettes have poison gas in them. Is that true?" ANSWERline: Yes. Approximately 92 percent of cigarette smoke is composed mostly of a number of lethal gases including carbon monoxide. This means that even though a cigarette is low in damaging tar and nicotine, it can still be dangerous to health. In fact, Sweden, a nation with a high rate of cigarette-' related diseases, has just passed a law requiring the listing of carbon monoxide content on cigarette packages to let the smoking public know just what it is getting. Cigarette gas has been getting get-ting increased attention since the Third World Conference m Smoking and Health which was held in 1975 in the U.S. with the support of the American Cancer Society. This is just one more reason for a cigarette smoker like yourself to give thought to quitting. Your local ACS Unit c- l '.jlp. |