Regardless of the composition, herbal cigarettes smoked at a temperature of 600-900 degrees Celsius generate tar, carbon monoxide and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, including benzo[a]pyrene a group 1 carcinogen according to IARC (IARC, 2023)
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The then-health minister, Ana Pastor, of the Popular Party, supported the move, but it was not passed until the following year, when the Socialist Party was in power
Its inception came after an attempt was made at the Turmac cigarette factory in Zevenaar, an eastern village in the Netherlands, to raise worker morale and increase worker productivity by hanging large scale paintings over the heads of employees, from the ceiling of the factory floor