Many people assume that cigarettes are nothing more than rolled tobacco in a slight piece of paper. They have a hard time understanding just why it is that smoking is so very harmful to them – after all, they burn candles without a problem, people have fireplaces in their homes without warnings from the Surgeon General, and of course fire has been so important for cooking food for generations.

So why all the hype and hullabaloo about smoking? What is it about this small piece of a burning leaf that makes it so terribly taboo?

The real truth about smoking is that cigarettes are much, much more than just rolled tobacco. If that was all they were, they may very well be much less dangerous than they are. But cigarettes actually contain many more ingredients than that.

What is so sad and shocking about the ingredients in cigarettes is that most smokers aren’t even aware of it. They simply continue to smoke on, thinking that there is nothing in them other than that burning leaf to hurt them. However, if most smokers really knew the truth about the ingredients in cigarettes – not to mention how they got there – they would probably be shocked!

When tobacco companies first came into existence and decided that mass marketing cigarettes was a good idea, they needed a way to make sure that people continued to buy their products. After all, people had been hand-rolling their own cigarettes for generations, so there had to be a way for these cigarette manufacturers to make their products more special, more appealing to the consumer, in order for them to stay in business.

And to do that, tobacco companies decided to slip in some extra ingredients that would not only make their cigarettes taste better than anything people made at home, they were also meant to be more addictive.

That’s right, people are addicted to cigarettes not because of the tobacco itself, but because of the special ingredients that were purposely added by the tobacco companies to make them so.