Misc Cigarettes, Methylamine, dextropolamine, etc.

[Lord]

Hi again. I have heard that some cigarettes contain strange compounds such as plutonium oxide and others. (Dihydride methylamine)?

I have come across some drugs known as dextropolamine and methylamine sulfate.

These sound like awful substances and I'm not sure I want to smoke a cigarette with some of those weird substances.
Can anyone elaborate on what these substances are?
Thanks

 

[sekio]

The radioactive isotope in cigarettes of concern is polonium (not plutonium). It is deposited onto tobacco leaves from the decay of atmospheric radon gas. (It is also deposited on everything else though, dependent on leaf surface area.)

Tobacco smoke does contain methylamine, though not as a sulfate salt. Methylamine is actually a natural metabolite of adrenaline as well as nicotine too.

Most of the nasty compounds are present in tobacco smoke are not there because they have been added to the cigarette. They are a result of incomplete combustion of the organic compounds in tobacco. Even organically grown pure air-dried naturally cured tobacco will produce tar, formaldehyde, methylamine, ammonia, acetaldehyde, hydrogen cyanide, methyl isocyanate, phenol, cresol, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, nitrosamines, nitrogen oxides, etc.

Dextropolamine is a fictional compound from a song by the Wintergreens.