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posted June 3, 2009, from March/April 2009 issue
cartoon by John Jonik
Anti-Smoking Officials Violate Public Trust
By John Jonik
When officials—someday--condemn and prohibit untested and toxic non-tobacco cigarette adulterants in cigarets, only then will we know that legitimate medical science is being used to create legitimate law.
Current smoke-ban laws may be crimes themselves in that they help the cigarette industry to evade charges and liabilities. These laws may constitute illegal obstruction of justice, and are based often on perjured statements about tobacco killing thousands of people. In fact, the killing is due to the many non-tobacco industrial ingredients that are part of typical commercial cigarettes, especially pesticides, dioxins, polonium 210 from phosphate fertilizers, and burn accelerants. Lawmakers even lack the human decency to inform or warn anyone of these additives. Currently, that would be tantamount to a confession of guilt.
“Anti-smoking” officials are likely swimming in funding from, and/or investments in, the most toxic, carcinogenic parts of the cigarette industry: pesticides, chlorine, fertilizers, contaminated agricultural additives, paper and pulp, etc. It is understandable that they prefer to blame and legally burden the unprotected and un-informed victims, and to scapegoat the conveniently “sinful” tobacco plant.
Such anti-smoking officials are no better than Capone gang members pretending to be “anti-shooting”. Worse actually. Gangsters aren’t sworn and paid to protect the public from exactly such risks and harms.
Smokers and non-smokers
are being intentionally divided. Both sides ought be in the streets
together demanding removal of corrupted officials, and removal of industrial
toxins and carcinogens from cigarettes and so many other consumer products.
Is there salmonella in my cigarette?
It’s fortunate that cigarette smokers probably can’t catch salmonella from burning peanut shells, because that may be the main ingredient in some brands.
One of numerous US patents for fake tobacco, a patent held by RJ Reynolds, Inc, outlines the use of shredded peanut shells either as a tobacco filler or used alone for cigarets. You can’t get dreaded--and increasingly illegal--tobacco smoke from that.
No laws prohibit peanut shell smoke. No enforcers test the smoke to learn if it is tobacco smoke or not. No laws require cigarette manufacturers to label the contents of their cigarettes. If someone assumes it’s tobacco, that’s their mistake.
The peanut shell patent
is viewable online at www.freepatentsonline.com/