document.write( "Question 9197: If Gasp cigarettes have 5.0 mg tar and 0.40 mg nicotine per cigarette and there are 20. cigarettes per pack, how many packs of cigarettes would of been smoked to coat you lungs with 4 oz. of tar? how many packs would you have to smoke to introduce your lungs to one gram of the drug nicotine. \n" ); document.write( "

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First you need to know the following conversions:\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "1 mg = .0000353 oz.
\n" ); document.write( "1 mg = .001 gr.\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Total Tar / Pack = 20 cigarettes / pack times 5mg of tar / cigarette = 100 mg of tar / pack
\n" ); document.write( "Total Nicotine / pack = 20 cigarettes / pack times .40mg of nicotine / cigarette = 8 mg of nicotine / pack\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "first convert tar to ounces = 100 mg times .0000353 oz = .00353 oz of tar / pack\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Next convert Nicotine to grams = 8 mg times .001 grams = .008 gr of nicotine / pack\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "to coat your lungs with 4oz of tar = 4oz / .00353 oz / pack = 1,133.14 packs\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "to introduce 1 gram of nicotine = 1gr / .008 gr / pack = 125 packs \n" ); document.write( "

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