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U.S. Medical Science Corrupted By Chlorine Cartel
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John Jonik | 06.03.2010
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, and generally the entire U.S. health system, do not know, or will not acknowledge, what a cigarette actually is. They serve the interests of industrial chemical firms over the vital needs of people.  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention seem to not know what a typical cigarette is. "TUESDAY, June 1 (HealthDay News) -- American cigarettes could pack a more toxic punch than foreign brands, say researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In one of the first studies of its kind, researchers compared the levels of tobacco-specific nitrosamines -- a main carcinogenic component of tobacco -- in cigarette butts and in smokers from several countries. ******* These "researchers" have crafted incomplete, misleading and deceptive results. This cannot be accidental. The phrase "tobacco specific nitrosamines" gives away the problem. How the CDC, in addressing cancer, can ignore all the cancer-causing pesticide residues in typical cigarettes, the dioxin-creating chlorine chemicals and the chlorine-bleached paper, the carcinogenic levels of radiation from certain Still Legal phosphate fertilizers, and the little fact that a typical cigarette may not even be made from tobacco is a question. It's a question the CDC cannot answer, and certainly does not care to be asked. The dioxins (from industrial chlorine, impossible from tobacco or any plant) are not only cancer-causing themselves, they are "promoters" of cancer, accelerating the cell damage. The CDC has no problem with that---preferring to cast the blame onto Mother Nature's un-patented, conveniently "sinful", tobacco and nicotine. Un-informed, un-protected, secretly-poisoned smokers are also blamed, of course. Big Chlorine (pesticides, paper pulp, etc.) is off the hook again. Its license to poison, kill, and evade liabilities and criminal consequences has not yet been revoked. This epidemic situation regarding "studies" of "smoking" and "tobacco" represents easily the most widespread corruption of medical science in history. That "tobacco kills" has been made a tenet of corporate religion. That Industrially-Contaminated Smoking Products is the big killer is heresy. If there are more of those nitrosamines in U.S. cigarettes, it can only come from is the nicotine extract added to the cigarettes if they contain tobacco or not. Manufacturers require uniform nicotine levels in each cigarette. They cannot depend on tobacco leaves having uniform levels. This his is about adding something to the products...not about some mysteriously more potent tobacco plants. As for the FDA--- The FDA is specifically forbidden by the "tobacco regulation" law from doing anything about the agricultural parts of the cigarette industry. True. The FDA may not set foot on a tobacco farm to see the 450 or so different pesticides registered for tobacco use. The FDA many not test a cigarette, or a smoking victim, for agricultural chemicals. The FDA cannot stick a Geiger Counter into the fertilizers. The FDA may not visit any Curing Sheds to see the pesticides used there. And---the FDA, apparently, cannot even look at all the kinds of agricultural waste cellulose, none likely organic, used, in patented ways, to make fake tobacco. The law says nothing either way about the FDA checking the cigarette paper (usually chlorine-bleached) in light of paper pulp being an agricultural product. Since nicotine is also an agricultural product, from tobacco after all, it may be that the FDA will not be allowed to even look at nicotine levels even though the law does allow the FDA to lower nicotine levels to almost zero. It can't prohibit nicotine entirely because...well. ..without some nicotine, there would be no Drug there for the Food and DRUG Administration to administer. No one seems concerned that, if nicotine levels are lowered, that would prompt more and deeper smoking as smokers try to get satisfying levels. That would be swell for taxes, but pretty bad for human health and life. The idea of permitting only plain tobacco smoking products---unless an adulterant can be proven to not add to the still-undisclosed inherent risks of plain tobacco---is an idea that the chlorine industries (oil, pesticides, pharms, plastics, etc.) and their insurers, investors and friends in government will not consider. |
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