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What's in a cigarette?

Matching quiz

Find out what you inhale when you smoke, or when you are exposed to secondhand smoke.

Enter the letter next to the definition in the box next to the substance name. Click the 'submit' button to see your results.

Substances:

a.) Acetone	e.) Cyanide	i.) Nicotine
b.) Ammonia	f.) Formaldehyde	j.) Tar
c.) Benzene	g.) Hydrogen cyanide	k.) Vinyl chloride
d.) Carbon monoxide	h.) Lead

Quiz - Substances You Inhale When You Smoke Cigarettes
Definition	Your Answer
Preserves dead bodies.
You can also find this ingredient in rat poison.
The drug that makes it hard for you to quit smoking. It's used in other things too, like the bug spray you use on your plants.
See those yellow stains on a smoker's teeth? The same chemical is used to pave streets!
Helps your car run, because it's also used to make gasoline.
You wouldn't stand behind a car with exhaust coming out, would you? This exhaust is also in cigarettes.
You see it everyday when you throw out your trash because it's also used to make garbage bags.
This is a poison used to kill bugs.
You can use it to take off your nail polish, but you also inhale it when you smoke cigarettes.
Found in batteries.
You clean your house with this chemical. Don't smoke it!

Content last updated July 16, 2012.

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