Interesting experience: the temperature of a smoldering cigarette fluctuates between 310-320°

Substances contained in tobacco smoke [edit | edit code]

The smoke of an average cigarette contains up to 12,000 different substances and chemical compounds. Of these, 196 are poisonous, and 14 are narcotic [ source not specified 2356 days

] . At least 76 of the known compounds are carcinogens [21].

Notes: * carcinogens, ** toxins. Acetaldehyde occurs during the combustion of sugar and, along with nicotine, is addictive [ source not specified 234 days

] .

Tobacco smoke also contains radioactive substances, in particular polonium-210 and lead-210, which enter tobacco leaves from soil and fertilizers [21] [22] Isotopes of radon and cesium are also found in smoke [23] Long-term attempts by tobacco companies to reduce the content radioactive materials in cigarettes are unsuccessful, their internal studies have not been published [24]. In this case, it is necessary to take into account radiation doses and background radiation, as well as the fact that they also enter any other plants, including food plants [25].

At the moment when a cigarette is lit/lit/set on fire, the burning temperature of the small flame at the tip of the cigarette can reach up to 700 °C or 800 °C degrees, while at the moment of smoking, when the cigarette is simply burning, its temperature reaches 600 °C degrees.

But the burning temperature of the paper will be at least 233 °C.

The tobacco in a cigarette does not burn, but smolders, and the temperature of its smoldering is written that it can fluctuate somewhere from 400 to 800°C degrees. During this period, a great many different chemical processes occur in the cigarette.

The burning temperature of a cigarette may also differ depending on its contents.

Not so long ago, a movement began all over the world to search for a replacement for the usual classic smoking of cigarettes; all sorts of devices entered the markets of countries around the world, but they can still be divided into: Alternative smoking methods - that is, those that have nothing in common with cigarettes except exhalations of steam/smoke, for example the ubiquitous “Vaping” or “Hovering” with their notorious evaporators of various liquids, and Replacement ones, for example iQOS from Philip Morris, which will be discussed today.

I’ll say right away that this article is not of any advertising nature, and no one will use NLP to encourage you to run out and buy this device every few lines.

History [edit | edit code]

The first similarities to cigarettes were invented by the American Indians. It was they who began to wrap tobacco in straw, reeds, and corn leaves. In 1492, Columbus, on one of the islands in the Caribbean (it was possibly the island of Tobago, from the name of which, as some historians believe, the word “tobacco” came from) met an old smoking Indian (hence the traditional symbol of a tobacco shop - pipe-smoking Indian).

In Europe, the spread of cigarettes began after the Crimean War of 1853-1856. - Russian and Turkish soldiers, in order to smoke at a rest stop, began to wrap tobacco in paper gunpowder cartridges or scraps of newspapers. This habit was adopted by the British and French troops in the Crimea from their Turkish colleagues [8], and then their mass production was established in England. The first cigarette factory in Europe was built in London.

Cigarettes owe their rapid spread to the invention of machines for making them in the United States in the late 1880s. To make cigarettes, tobacco of new “light” varieties was used (for example, “White Burley”). Cigarettes quickly gained popularity among smokers, since in order to smoke a cigar or pipe, time and an appropriate environment were required, and this was not always the case. The first cigarettes were not equipped with a filter and looked more like cigarettes.

The first cigarettes with asbestos filters were produced in England. These were cigarettes of the famous Kent brand. Further, thanks to competition, modern types of filters were developed. Later, filter cigarettes appeared, to which menthol was added.

In 1847, the famous Philip Morris company was founded, selling hand-rolled Turkish cigarettes, and in 1902 it opened its representative office in New York and began to actively engage in marketing and released Marlboro cigarettes. Cigarettes became popular, and in 1913 the RJ Reynolds company released Camel cigarettes.

In the 1920s, not only men, but also women began to smoke. In 1939, the American Tobacco Company released a new brand, Pall Mall (making it the largest tobacco company in the United States), Reynolds introduced the Winston brand of filter cigarettes.

During World War II 1939-1945, cigarette sales remained high. Tobacco companies send millions of free cigarettes to soldiers (cigarettes are included in soldiers' diets, like food), and after the war they acquire a huge number of regular customers. The “golden age” of the tobacco industry is considered to be the late 1940s and early 1950s, when famous movie actors made smoking cigarettes and cigars an integral part of their luxurious and mysterious image.

The temperature of a smoldering cigarette is 700-900 degrees!

Columbus discovered America - he was a great sailor, And at the same time he taught the whole world to smoke tobacco...

Freshman month this year is largely dedicated to such serious problems of young people as drug addiction, the spread of HIV infection and, of course, smoking. Readers can get more detailed information at library events and from books, while we present only a few interesting facts. Behind the lines of statistics

According to the WHO, 4 million people die every year from tobacco-related diseases, or one person every 8 seconds. If this continues, within 20 years smoking will become the leading cause of death and disability worldwide.

In recent years in Russia there has been an intensive initiation of smoking among adolescents and young people, especially girls. In total, 49.5% of this category smoke, that is, almost 16 million people. 58.3% of boys smoke, 40.5% of girls smoke.

Do you know this about tobacco? Nicotine is one of the most dangerous poisons of plant origin. A person will die instantly if a dose of nicotine from one smoking pipe is injected into the body intravenously. The temperature of a smoldering cigarette is 700-900 degrees! The lungs of an experienced smoker are a black, rotting mass.

For the entire population of teenagers and young adults who smoke, there are 3 billion 481.9 million packs of cigarettes per year. Thus, the average annual total amount spent by them on the purchase of cigarettes is 58 billion 321.5 million rubles. Chemicals contained in tobacco smoke contribute to premature baldness.

A smoker is twice as likely to become impotent as a non-smoking man because smoking narrows the blood vessels in the genitals. Smoking also damages male sperm. The earlier a young man starts smoking, the more difficult it will be for him to subsequently become a father. Smoking leads to the development of three main fatal diseases: lung cancer; chronic bronchitis and emphysema; coronary disease.

Smoke “breaks” the body. Heavy smokers have 22% more problems with forgetfulness than non-smokers, and light smokers have 12% more problems. A smoker personally shortens his life by 3-8 years. Three men who starred as the Marlboro Man for tobacco commercials at different times died from smoking-related illnesses: David Millar in 1987 from emphysema, and Wayne McLaren in 1992 after lung cancer spread to his brain. , and David McLean - 1995 from lung cancer.

In France, in Nice, as a result of the competition “Who will smoke the most?” two “winners” died after smoking 60 cigarettes each, and the remaining participants were hospitalized with severe poisoning. In England, a case was recorded in which a 40-year-old man who smoked for a long time smoked 14 cigars and 40 cigarettes at night during difficult work. In the morning he became ill, and, despite the medical assistance provided, he died. The literature describes a case when a girl was put to sleep in a room where tobacco was in bundles and powder, and she died a few hours later. Recent studies have shown that if parents smoke, their children will be much more dependent on tobacco. Children of smokers begin to smoke at the age of 6-8 years. There was a recorded case of a four-year-old child tarring one after another.

A little history One of the “youngest” vices – tobacco smoking – has a 500-year history. Discovery by Christopher Columbus in 1492. America is associated with the discovery by Europeans of many new plants for them, among which was tobacco. At first, tobacco was declared an all-healing medicinal herb: “Tobacco induces sleep, relieves fatigue, soothes pain, cures headaches...” Tobacco quickly took possession of aristocratic salons back in the 16th century. and became especially popular in the 17th and 18th centuries. Recommended at first as a cure for all diseases, tobacco very soon acquired a bad reputation, and the Spanish Queen Isabella was the first to curse it along with those who used it.

Turkish Sultan Murad IV banned smoking tobacco under pain of death penalty applied to passionate smokers; the firman he issued in 1625 provided for various types of death penalty for smokers: beheading, burning or impalement.

In Persia - lips and nose were cut off for smoking, in Italy - tobacco was declared the devil's pastime and, as a warning to posterity, five monks caught smoking were walled up alive in a monastery wall; in England - smokers were equated with thieves and were led through the streets with a rope around their neck .

In Russia, during the reign of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich, those caught smoking were punished for the first time with 60 blows of sticks on the feet, and for the second time, their nose and ears were cut off! And after wooden Moscow burned down in 1634 because of smokers, smoking was prohibited under penalty of death! In the special Code of 1649. it was “... ordered that everyone who was found with a godless potion should be tortured and beaten on a goat with a whip until they confess where the potion came from.” Tobacco traders were ordered to “flog, cut their noses and exile to distant cities.”

"Strength" of cigarettes [edit | edit code]

Cigarettes differ in “strength” (nicotine and tar content per cigarette) and smell (regular, flavored, menthol cigarettes).

• Strong - usually distributed in packs with red, less often black, tints.
• Light cigarettes - the packs in which such cigarettes are distributed are usually blue in color or its derivatives.
• Ultralight - packs are mostly gray or silver in color.
• Extra light - the packs are mostly white.
• Flavored - cigarettes containing special chemical additives in tobacco or in a filter in special capsules that give the cigarettes a different aroma (fruit, vanilla, etc.). These also include menthol cigarettes containing menthol, the packs of which are predominantly green in design.

Basically, all cigarettes of the same brand, but of different strengths, contain the same tobacco composition (with the exception of those in which the tobacco is low nicotine) and differ only in the number of holes on the filter through which additional air is sucked in. The more holes, the “lighter” the type of cigarette (their action is based on the fact that, with the help of additionally supplied air, the concentration of toxic substances is reduced due to a decrease in cravings through the tobacco-containing part of the cigarette). Thus, such cigarettes are the same in the amount of harmful substances they contain, but they differ in the amount of smoke inhaled by a person (with the same density of “filling” of cigarettes); there is no difference in the speed of smoking a cigarette, since cigarettes have the ability to self-smolder (length, respectively and the amount of tobacco decreases even outside the smoker’s puffs). [ source not specified 469 days

] There is no scientifically proven evidence that “light” cigarettes are safer for health than “regular” cigarettes; in this case, the concept is such that it comes from the definition of “nicotine and tar are harmful in any quantity.” The idea of ​​light cigarettes is a marketing ploy by tobacco companies to publicize the results of the first studies on the dangers of smoking and failed attempts to make cigarettes safe for health.

In more than 70 countries around the world, as well as in accordance with the WHO Framework Convention, it is prohibited to use the labels “Light”, “Mild”, etc., as they mislead consumers about the dangers of smoking cigarettes. In Russia, starting from 2021, cigarette packs do not indicate the amount of nicotine and tar they contain.