Secret Poisoning of Cigs, OK...Smoking Them, Banned.
Watchdog | 27.12.2003 21:20 | Ecology | Health | World
Anyone interested at all in the "smoking" ban story, and how it is essentially an Evasion of Liabilities for the Cig Industry, ought Google terms such as 'Radiation Cigarettes', Pesticides Tobacco', 'DDT Tobacco', 'Dioxin Tobacco', 'POPs Tobacco', etc. But here are links to bits of integral info...that you will not find in the corporate media...or in your legislators' speeches.
( Other postings here on this topic have unaccountably been trimmed. This "smoking" thing is about the environment, toxic chemicals, public health, corporate crime, the war on nature, evasion of liabilities, Big oil, pesticides, chlorine, scapegoating innocent victims and so on. It is NOT just about rude smokers in Pubs...nor about protecting public health. Please offer these links to your environmental groups and others...and to pub owners and their attorneys.)
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** April ('03), the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) condemned lax government monitoring of tobacco pesticides. See: Wash Post >
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32003-2003Apr24.html > http://ens-news.com/ens/apr2003/2003-04-25-09.asp#anchor2 http://www.ash.org.nz/doc/l-doc/0000573.html#e
> http://www.harvardhillside.com/Stories/0,1413,108~5342~1420042,00.html
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> ...and these websites for toxic gases from the burning of synthetic fabrics...which happens when a Burn Accelerated cigarette may fall:
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> http://www.avora.com/fr_body_3.html
> http://www.fibersource.com/f-tutor/health.htm
> http://irc.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/cbd/cbd243e.html
** Australia finally opened up the Pandora's Box about non-tobacco cigarette adulterants, specifically DDT and other pesticide residues.
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,7758403,00.html
** And, a huge lawsuit in Israel...not about "smoking" but about ADDITIVES: From newspaper, Haaretz: http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/intl-tobacco/2003q4/000970.html
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** April ('03), the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) condemned lax government monitoring of tobacco pesticides. See: Wash Post >
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32003-2003Apr24.html > http://ens-news.com/ens/apr2003/2003-04-25-09.asp#anchor2 http://www.ash.org.nz/doc/l-doc/0000573.html#e >
http://www.harvardhillside.com/Stories/0,1413,108~5342~1420042,00.html >
> ...and these websites for toxic gases from the burning of synthetic fabrics...which happens when a Burn Accelerated cigarette may fall:
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http://www.avora.com/fr_body_3.html >
http://www.fibersource.com/f-tutor/health.htm >
http://irc.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/cbd/cbd243e.html ** Australia finally opened up the Pandora's Box about non-tobacco cigarette adulterants, specifically DDT and other pesticide residues.
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,7758403,00.html ** And, a huge lawsuit in Israel...not about "smoking" but about ADDITIVES: From newspaper, Haaretz:
http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/intl-tobacco/2003q4/000970.html
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27.12.2003 21:30
** For US Patents for Fake Tobacco materials and processes...type in Pat. No. 3,978,866, for starters, (then do "next" or "previous") in this category at:
*** Bill Drake's invaluable site:
*** www.pmdocs.com (Philip Morris had to post this as part of "settlement")
***The Massachusetts Tobacco Ingredients and Nicotine Yield Act is at:
The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals Decision is at:
***The revised "Ninth Report" that contains all addendum materials is available on the Internet from the National Toxicology Program's web page at
***Radiation contaminating tobacco...
*** www.chem.unep.ch/pops/ The 12 initial POPs include eight pesticides (aldrin, chlordane, DDT, dieldrin, endrin, heptachlor, mirex, and toxaphene), two industrial chemicals (PCBs and hexachlorobenzene, which is also a pesticide), and two unwanted by-products of combustion and industrial processes (dioxins and furans). NINE of the 12 worst industrial pollutants on earth are, or have been, in cigs!
***** From Pesticicide Action Network, re/ 450 still registered tobacco pesticides (from oil & pharmaceuticl firms).
*** RJR's (biased) review of Judge Osteen's rejection of EPA "secondhand smoke" stuff.
*** More on EPA/2nd hand smoke; This avoids all along anything about what's IN "secondhand smoke". Cigs not defined or analyzed...smoke not defined or analyzed. This is not science.
**** Re "ETS" Environmental Tobacco Smoke"...except that no one TESTED unadulterated tobacco smoke for ANYTHING. Both sides doing a dance.
*** And, this troubling note:
"The best source for information on exemptions is the UNEP website,
Convention text itself is informative, as is the revised list of requested exemptions. ...." It indicates that "unintentional" dioxins, like in products (like in typical cigarettes?) may not be covered in the POPs Treaty. Does WHO know this?
**** Fantastic scandal...that never heated up: Health insurers links to Big Cig.
If that site is a problem...see same material at:
*** Re/ "fire safe" cigs:
``The Massachusetts Tobacco Ingredients and Nicotine Yield Act is at:
The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals Decision is at:
*** No "link" to this at CDC but....here it is copied:
Dioxns in Cigarette Smoke
Copy of an abstract from US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Ga.
Authors: H. Muto, Y. Takazawa
Title: Dioxins in Cigarette Smoke
From: Archives of Environmental Health, Pg. 44 (3); 171-4
Date: May/June 1989
Abstract:
Dioxins in cigarettes, smoke, and ash were determined using gas
chromatography/mass spectrometry. The total concentration of
polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) in cigarette smoke was
approximately 5.0 micrograms/m3 at the maximum level, whereas various
cogeners from tetra-octa-chlorodibenzo-p-dioxin ( -CDD) were detected.
Particularly, the total concetration of hepta-CDD cogeners was the
highest among these cogeners. Mass fragmentograms of various PCDD
cogeners were similar to those in flue gas samples collected from a
municipal waste incinerator. The PCDD cogeners that were not present in the cigarettes were found in the smoke samples, the 2, 3, 7,8-TCDD toxic equivalent value---an index for effects on humans---for total PCDDs in smoke was 1.81nng/m3 using the toxic factor of the United States
Environmental Protection Agency. Daily intake of PCDDs by smoking 20
cigarettes was estimated to be approximately 4.3 pg. kg body/weight/day.
This value was close to that of the ADIs; 1-5 pg kg body/weight/day
reported in several countries. A heretofore unrecognized health risk was represented by the presence of PCDDs in cigarette smoke.
*** Methyl Bromide use on tobacco:
***US Gov't Accounting Office March 2003 report on lax gov't monitoring of tobacco pesticide residues. GAO fails to note dioxin from the chlorine chemicals, and fails to define what it means by "smoking", but...
*** The whole Muto/Takazawa piece on "Dioxins in Cigarette Smoke". Archives of Environmental Health, Pg. 44 (3) : 171-4 May/Jun89 (Compare to "Health Effects..." just below.)
*** HEALTH EFFECTS OF DIOXINS ...w/ info re/ U.S. dioxin maximum limits etc. (Compare to Muto/Takazawa discoveries re/ dioxin in cig smoke. Do the easy math. Result: just 20 typical cigs, w/ chlorine, hit unwitting victims with 716 times the US minimum for dioxin exposure!):
***Interesting. "Smokers" job performance better than non-smokers! Journal of Psychology. 2002 May;136(3):339-49 Related Articles, Links
***from the National Center on Food and Agricultural Policy, from
1997 use data. (Not all, just major tobacco pesticides); Number, I believe, is pounds used per anum. Will have to double check:
1,3-Dichloropropene 13,279,285
ACEPHATE 871,899
ALDICARB 59,719
BENEFIN
BT
CARBARYL 2,057
CARBOFURAN
CHLOROPICRIN 6,761,644
CHLORPYRIFOS 406,822
CLOMAZONE 217,617
DIAZINON
DIMETHOMORPH 36,818
DIPHENAMID
DISULFOTON 13,495
ENDOSULFAN 172,766
ETHEPHON 102,130
ETHOPROP 182,321
FENAMIPHOS 379,841
FLUMETRALIN 352,742
FONOFOS 16
IMIDACLOPRID 67,896
ISOPROPALIN
MALATHION 15,437
MALEIC HYDRAZIDE 1,790,089
MANCOZEB 356,811
MEFENOXAM 139,199
METALAXYL 271,368
METHIDATHION
METHOMYL 29,773
METHYL BROMIDE 685,026
NAPROPAMIDE 92,622
PEBULATE 131,665
PENDIMETHALIN 473,718
SETHOXYDIM 9,579
SPINOSAD 2,815
SULFENTRAZONE 69,073
TRICHLORFON
TOBACCO Total 26,974,241
*** "Liggett Documents Show Pesticide Use For Tobacco," (...such as DDT, endrin, and malathion.) WALL STREET JOURNAL, April 9, 1997, p. B8. (sdb 4/9/97) [can't find computer link, yet.]
**** Title: How cigarette additives are used to mask environmental tobacco smoke.
Dr. Gregory N Connolly, Director, Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program, Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health
Check out these websites for burn accelerants (STILL!) added to cigarettes:
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