Anti-Smoking Experiment

This is an experiment, carried out in a fume cupboard to comply with current smoking legislation, to illustrate to children the potential harm that can be caused by cigarette smoking. In the "old days" the pupils would have had the sensory association of the smell, and even the taste, of tobacco smoke, with the filth that they see accumulating; nowadays it's a merely visual experience, but still effective.

If you want to try it, do not put the bung in firmly; it is there to restrict, not prevent, smoke escaping, in order that the tar has time to condense inside the tube (as it would do in your lungs!).

Category:

Education

Tags:

• smoking
• anti-smoking
• cigarette
• experiment
• steiner
• waldorf

[scareaffair]

i need to do this exp for my school project......how do i go about doing this??? plz reply fast.

[tetenterre]

@scareaffair Get a boiling tube, bung, retort stand, boss, clamp, Bunsen burne, tongsr. Clamp tube onto stand above burner in a fume cabinet. Insert cigarette and *loosely* insert bung, so that gas can escape. Light burner and a adjust to a quiet blue flame. Remove heat once tobacco has combusted. Remember to allow things to cool before you handle them with the hands -- until then, use tongs.

[zdlol]

Why are you burning the filter?

[tetenterre]

@zdlol A bit of imprecision with the Bunsen flame. As you can see, I withdrew the flame when the filter started to burn, by which time there was already a lot of tar condensate in the tube.

[duhkulavision]

please can i use this footage in a uni presentation??

[tetenterre]

@duhkulavision Yes, please do use it. Only condition I would ask is that you only present it as what happens when you burn a cigarette in a test tube. The demonstration is an indication only that a cigarette contains tar; an inference is that *some* of this may condense in the smoker's lungs.

[Croack8899]

Gross.. I wont smoke anymore X.X

[cyberus09648]

I can imagine my lungs in place of the tube LOL

Nice.

[jmflyer55]

Burning the filter flaws the experiment. Not to mention, there's a hundred or more things I could put in a test tube over a bunson and get similar or at least visually "gross" effects.... It's a fact that cigarettes have tar in them, so what's the big revelation here?? Just curious...Put some caramel in a test tube and see how that reacts, see how many will stop eating caramel after they see how gross that turns out..........JM

[ConorSomerz]

A guy I knew smoked 10 a day yet said he isnt a smoker. I nearly died from laughing.

[Nockoutz1]

Wow and all this from 1 Cigarette?

Peoples smoke like 1-3 cigarettes every day minimum....think about a year...

[jtspitfire]

All i have to say is: If you can still justify that smoking is or not that bad after seeing this, you deserve to die. so keep smoking, cancer is just around the corner with every puff tobacco.

[greenjello818]

HAHAHAHA thats so gross, im gunna use this in my PowerPoint for school. BTW 6 people just died X(