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What are the chemicals in tobacco that cause cancer?
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Too many to list: There are hundreds of chemicals that can act as carcinogen, e.g., polycyclic hydrocarbons, polonium 210, arsenic etc. See this site for a technical description. http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/91/14/1194.full.
Answered 9/28/2012
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