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The main ingredient in cigarettes is tobacco. Tobacco is a green, leafy plant that is grown in warm climates. Farmers use many chemicals to grow tobacco. They use fertilizers to make the soil rich and insecticides to kill the insects that eat the tobacco plant.
Some 600 ingredients are used in American cigarettes, but a Liggett spokesman said the L&M statement was a quite exhaustive list of every ingredient used in that brand. Ingredients in tobacco products have never been proved harmful -- especially when compared with the many toxins found in tobacco smoke itself.