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Originally Posted by Ree  You know, I've heard this. We have friends who live in the mountains of North Carolina and they grow their own tobacco, process it naturally and roll their own cigarettes. They claim it is not anywhere as addictive is commercial cigarettes. |
Interesting, Ree. Thanks for the post.
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Here's some interesting info I found. It's strange how we're told one thing, and in a lot of cases the opposite is true. This has to do with what
really causes lung cancer.
"The British Medical Research Council in 1957 reported that the
death rate from lung cancer in 1955 had more than doubled since
1945 . Did it escape them that 1945 was the year of the atom bomb?
That radioactivity causes cancer is well established and scientifically
proven (unlike tobacco, which has never been so proven)."
"Dr. Paul Kotin, an American pathologist, calculated that a diesel
truck emits in one minute the same amount of benzpyrene as is contained
in 350,000 cigarettes."
"Another scandal is the attempted hushing up by the government of
cancer' being found to be alarmingly prevalent in the vicinity of petrochemical
plants - something which can no longer be hidden."
"In the latter half of the 20th century we have created a vast number
of new chemicals called petro-chemicals, developed for pesticides and
industrial chemicals . In 1940 the U.S. was producing one billion
pounds a year . By 1975 this had increased to 300 billion pounds . Epstein
says in view of these carcinogens, that in two or three decades, instead
of talking about a 1 in 5 incidence of cancer, we'll be talking
about 1 in 3, if not 1 in 2."
"Stark Injustice : By using smoking as a scapegoat, governments and
industrialists have been able to escape paying large amounts in compensation
to service personnel and civilians affected by radioactivity
and other carcinogen pollutants. To them the cost of the anti-smoking
campaign is well worth while." Chapter 5 WHY SMOKING IS BENEFICIAL Page 27. The Smoking Scare Debunked. Originally titled
"Smoking is Good for You" (scanned PDF, 6.9Mb.)
