
How did a chain smoker quit? | Health Wealth, Ep 78
In conversation with Aalap Deboor, Mumbai-based producer and former cigarette user.
You have to be living under an impenetrable rock to not be aware of the dangers of tobacco-use. There are approximately 600 ingredients in a modern-day cigarettes. When burned, they create more than 7,000 chemicals. At least 69 of these chemicals are known to cause cancer. Some of the lesser known chemicals emitted include—arsenic (also found in rat poison), butane (also present in lighter fluid), tar (also used for paving roads), naphthalene and formaheldyde (also used to preserve dead bodies in mortuaries)…
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