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So, you thought it was the tar that caused cancer...

Think again. Cigarette companies will have you believing anything just as long as you continue to buy their products. The fact is, although insoluble tars are a contributing factor to the lung cancer danger present in today's cigarettes, the real danger is radioactivity. According to U.S. Surgeon General C. Everette Koop (on national television, 1990) radioactivity, not tar, accounts for at least 90% of all smoking related lung cancer.

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Tobacco crops grown in the United States are fertilized by law with phosphates rich in radium 226. In addition, many soils have a natural radium 226 content. Radium 226 breaks down into two long lived 'daughter' elements -- lead 210 and polonium 210. These radioactive particles become airborne, and attach themselves to the fine hairs on tobacco leaves.

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Studies have shown that lead 210 and polonium 210 deposits accumulate in the bodies of people exposed to cigarette smoke. Data collected in the late 1970's shows that smokers have three times as much of these elements in their lower lungs as non smokers. Smokers also show a greater accumulation of lead 210 and polonium 210 in their skeletons,though no studies have been conducted to link these deposits with bone cancer. Polonium 210 is the only component of cigarette smoke which has produced tumors by itself in inhalation experiments with animals.

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When a smoker inhales tobacco smoke, the lungs react by forming irritated areas in the bronchi. All smoke produces this effect. However, although these irritated spots are referred to as
'pre-cancerous' lesions, they are a perfectly natural defense system and usually go away with no adverse effects. Insoluble tars in tobacco smoke can slow this healing process by adhering to
lesions and causing additional irritation. In addition, tobacco smoke causes the bronchi to constrict for long periods of time, which obstructs the lung's ability to clear itself of these
residues.

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Many people think smoking marijuana is just as harmful as smoking tobacco, but this is not true. Those who hold that marijuana is equivalent to tobacco are misinformed. Due to the efforts of various federal agencies to discourage use of marijuana in the 1970's the government, in a fit of "reefer madness," conducted several biased studies designed to return results that would equate marijuana smoking with tobacco smoking, or worse.

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In fact, marijuana has been shown to be an expectorant and actually dilates the air channels it comes in contact with. This is why many asthma sufferers look to marijuana to provide relief.
Doctors have postulated that marijuana may, in this respect, be more effective than all of the prescription drugs on the market.

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Studies even show that due to marijuana's ability to clear the lungs of smog, pollutants, and cigarette smoke, it may actually reduce your risk of emphysema, bronchitis, and lung cancer. Smokers of cannabis have been shown to outlive non- smokers in some areas by up to two years. Medium to heavy tobacco smokers will live seven to ten years longer if they also smoke marijuana.

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Cannabis is also radically different from tobacco in that it does not contain nicotine and is not addictive. The psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, THC, has been accused of causing brain
and genetic damage, but these studies have all been disproven. In fact, the DEA's own Administrative Law Judge Francis Young has declared that "marijuana in its natural form is far safer than many foods we commonly consume." The disturbing thing about all of this information is that the majority of Americans are as yet unaware of the radioactive risk in cigarettes. In fact, many professionals: doctors, scientists and health administrators, either have never heard of polonium 210 or consider it to be just another scare story.

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Pulling Teeth

thanks DdC, another great article! cigs do suck. im trying to quit.

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[quote]Originally posted by Pulling Teeth:
<strong>thanks DdC, another great article! cigs do suck. im trying to quit.</strong><hr></blockquote>
me too i hate coughing up shit every morning.

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patriot

Well, yes, well Nancy. I told you we need this war on that dangerous marijuana. Yes, well, maybe we should outlaw tobacco too. Yes, well.

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The Rev

I don't know about you guys, but when pot's legal, I'm smoking chesterfields!



The Rev

BTW, another awesome post, Ddc!

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DdC

NO MORE PROHABITION, period!

The point of this post was to show the bogus argument comparing chemicalized US tobacco to Ganja without chemicals. Its the chemicals killing and another prohibition won't stop it. The liberals already have more deaths as it is driving the cost up not mentioning the added poisons while duping everyone into fear of Nicotine no different than Bushit fascist. Now the poor smoke the generic brands that are lower grade tobacco with even more chemicals. Or go to the black market with its problems.

Free the Weed and eliminate the chemical additions. Native American, Egyptian and Turkish tobacco, not grown with chemicals don't have the illness associated with American chemical brands. I smoke camel straights with my joints to keep from coughing on the chronic. I suppose they still make Chesterfields, but of the straights I prefer Camels over Pall Mall, Luckies or Chesterfield.

So Ronnie has altzheimers, eh? Typical GOPerversions, Nancy still says NO and Ronnie remains braindead. Nothing much ever changes.
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'A younger sibling of mine accidentally let grandma eat the wrong brownies... You could tell she had AD--Alzheimer's disease -- but nothing so prominent. It was like it took her back 3-4 years." Postings such as this one on the Alzforum website intrigued Dr Nathaniel Milton, a biochemist at London's Royal Free and University College medical school.

He was already actively researching compounds which prevent the brain cell death that occurs in Alzheimer's disease, and, with research partner Insight Biotechnology, had taken out patents on some capable of doing this.

He was also aware of a few reports suggesting that cannabis preparations, in the hands of doctors, could do for their patients much of what the brownies did for grandma.

The brain of an Alzheimer's sufferer contains abnormal deposits called "tangles" and "plaques." Associated with these deposits are proteins, or bits of them, called tau and amyloid-beta (Aß) respectively. Healthy tau plays a structural role in brain cells, but there is good evidence that in Alzheimer's disease, it becomes festooned with atoms of phosphorus and oxygen, like lights on a Christmas tree.

It is thought to be this that tips tau into tangles. Milton has evidence that something similar happens to Aß in plaques, and that this, in turn, makes it toxic to brain cells. In research to be published in the journal Neuroscience Letters, and which he will also present at next month's neurobiology of aging conference in Florida, he reports that cannabinoids - cannabis-like compounds that occur naturally in the brain - can stop Aß killing cells.

"My basic hypothesis," he says, "is that Aß is taken up into neurons, where it is phophorylated [garlanded, like tau, with phosphorus and oxygen] and kills them. It's this toxic action that cannabinoids prevent."

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jamf

Right on.

I read about the Radon connection too. Talk about makin an unhealthy product more unhealthy, Jeez. .

btw, im a couple of posts away from 420

ZenSkin

When tobacco becomes illegal, how will that help the cause of pot smokers?

Or are we selectively puritanical?

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