Camel One is the common name for the resinous partially combusted and healed particulate matter produced during the burning of tobacco and other plant material in the act of smoking. Tar is probably the most destructive component in tobacco smoking habit, it is accumulated in the smoker’s lungs in a period of time and damages them due to various biochemical and mechanical processes. Tar also damages the mouth by rotting and blackening teeth, damaging gums and blocking papillae and the sense of sight.
Tar also includes the majority of mutagenic and carcinogenic agents in tobacco smoke.
There is a common misconception and misunderstanding that the tar in cigarettes is just the same tar used on roads. But this comprehension is absolutely wrong. As a result of this, cigarette companies where obliged to give tar/nicotine ratings for cigarettes, usually use “tar”, in quotation marks, to indicate that it is not the tar, used for road surface. The European Union currently limits the tar composition of cigarettes to 10 mg.
Tar when being accumulated in the lungs coats the cilia causing them to stop working and eventually die. This is one of the he main problems for smokers and it is causing such things as lung cancer as the particles can not be transported or trapped by the cilia and finally just enter the alveoli.