With more and more people concerned about the adverse health effects of cigarettes, cigarette companies have more pressure on them now than ever before to reveal the information that they have on the chemicals in cigarettes. What chemicals are in cigarettes? While some have suggested that there could be over 4000 chemicals cigarettes are manufactured with, the actual list of all the chemicals in a cigarette seems to be much shorter. Four thousand is actually about the number of chemicals that are created when a cigarette is smoked, and the various additives and materials in the cigarette are burned and altered to create various chemical compounds. The list of chemicals found in cigarettes is therefore much shorter than a list of the chemicals in cigarette smoke.

A recent report on the types of chemicals contained in a cigarette which is based on recent information from five of the major international cigarette companies indicated about six hundred additives that are used in cigarettes. To list all chemicals in cigarettes would take much more space than we have here, but you can get the list of chemicals cigarette manufacturers use from the Department of Health and Human Services or online. Companies use some of the same additive chemicals in cigarettes and coffee; caffeine would be one of the most prominent of these. Caffeine is known to be somewhat psychologically addictive (although many would consider its additive effect slight or negligible). Of the harmful chemicals in cigarettes, most would point to nicotine - a physically addictive substance that has been linked to lung cancer, and to the various chemicals in a cigarette which seem to have trace amounts of radioactivity and could also be linked to cancer and other negative health effects seen in cigarette smokers over time.

So the answer to the question how many chemicals are in cigarettes would vary somewhere between six hundred at the time of manufacture and several thousand when the cigarette is actually smoked. It is hard to say what the cigarette brand with least chemicals is; however it has recently been found by the World Health Organization that Marlboro cigarettes have a far greater number of cigarette chemicals than many other of the world wide brands of cigarettes (over twenty times as many cigarette chemicals). The most detailed information available on cigarette chemicals is available from such organizations as the World Health Organization and American organizations such as the Department of Health and Human Services. In general, cigarette chemicals can at least be said to be either not good for, or neutral to, one's health.