Below is a list of links to information that, we hope, will create a THIRD SIDE to the "smoking" controversy, a side that uses actual science and medicine to frame the discussion.
As it is, the Pro-Smoking side, what they call "Big Tobacco", has, for many decades, deceived millions of people about the nature of typical cigarettes. By the time a typical product is adulterated and processed, it is no more tobacco than a Bible or a telephone book is a Tree...though they may be made from tree pulp.
The "anti-smoking" side appears to be FROM the cigarette industry itself, in particularly the non-manufacturing parts such as pesticides, pharmaceuticals (pesticides and ingredients), paper, chlorine, agri-businesses, adhesives, chocolate/cocoa and ALL of their insurers and investors. The idea here is to control the debate (the Pretend Enemy tactic) to absolutely minimize liabilities and profit losses and even to avoid criminal prosecution.

Here are some questions one ought ask of cigarette firms and of government officials:
1) What non-tobacco substances are in the cigarettes?
2) Have any of these adulterants and added ingredients been tested for safety in this use?
3) How many non-tobacco components are already known to be toxic, cancer-causing, burn-accelerating and/or addiction-enhancing?
4) How much sugar is added to typical cigarettes to, for one thing, make the products more appealing to young people? What other sweet, flavorful, aromatic and soothing things are added to do the same thing?
5) What brands use "tobacco substitute material" (fake tobacco made from industrial waste cellulose) in products?
6) Can such complex, multi-ingredient products be rightly called "Tobacco Products"? Can the smoke be called "tobacco smoke"? (For any practical purpose, can water laced with arsenic be called just "water"?)
7) Have effects of plain, unadulterated tobacco smoke ever been studied so as to compare results to the horrific statistics relating to typical processed smoking products? Without such studies, "tobacco smoke" (as opposed to smoke from typical cig concoctions) has not yet been determined to be more than a suspect.
8) Have smokers been tested for body levels of dioxins (from all the chlorine adulterants) or Polonium radiation (from certain phosphate tobacco fertilizers)?
9) Does Maryland have any laws against secretly adding known dangerous substances to consumer products? ( Is there ANYTHING a cigarette firm is prohibited from secretly putting into a cigarette?)
10) What funding comes to gov't officials from parts of the cigarette industry such as pesticides (oil and pharms), chlorine, paper/pulp/logging, agricultural conglomerates (source of many non-tobacco ingredients), adhesives, and their advertisers, insurers and investors?
11) Are judges and jurors in "smoking" cases required to reveal any economic links to parts of the cigarette cartel, including insurers and investors? Are conflicted judges/jurors then required to recuse themselves from the case?
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** April ('03), the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) condemned lax government monitoring of tobacco pesticides. See: Wash Post > www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32003-2003Apr24.html <
And...Environmental News Service > > ens-news.com/ens/apr2003/2003-04-25-09.asp <

*** Partial list of non-tobacco cig ingredients from which manufacturers select their secret "recipes":
tobaccodocuments.org/profiles/additives/
The Nation mag, in 91, reported about dangerous additives to "lite" cigs but can't get a copy on line...yet.

*** Bill Drake's invaluable site: ktc.com/~bdrake

*** www.pmdocs.com (Philip Morris had to post this as part of "settlement")

***The Massachusetts Tobacco Ingredients and Nicotine Yield Act is at:
www.state.ma.us/legis/laws/mgl/94-307B.htm
The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals Decision is at:
www.ca1.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl

***The revised "Ninth Report" that contains all addendum materials is available on the Internet from the National Toxicology Program's web page at ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov

***Radiation contaminating tobacco...
www.webspawner.com/users/radioactivethreat/

*** 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). [ But Carbofurans are on lists of tobacco pesticides...so, I don't quite understand this.]

***** From Pesticicide Action Network, re/ 450 still registered tobacco pesticides www.panna.org/resources/documents/tobacco.dv.html :
Tobacco, Farmers and Pesticides: The Other Story
May 1998 By Ellen Hickey and Yenyen Chan

*** RJR's (biased) review of Judge Osteen's rejection of EPA "secondhand smoke" stuff.
www.tobacco.org/resources/documents/osteensummary.html

*** More on EPA/2nd hand smoke; All garbage that avoids all along anything about what's IN "secondhand smoke". Cigs not defined or analyzed...smoke not defined or analyzed. This is SCIENCE??
stic.neu.edu/osteen.htm

**** Re "ETS" Environmental Tobacco Smoke"...except that no one TESTED unadulterated tobacco smoke for ANYTHING. Both sides doing a dance.
www.forces.org/articles/files/appeal.htm

*** And I just re-found this troubling note:
"The best source for information on exemptions is the UNEP website,
irptc.unep.ch/pops/, under "Stockholm Convention on POPs." The
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.
www.pnhp.org/news/2000/march/insurers_are_major_i.php

*** Re/ "fire safe" cigs: www.ameriburn.org/advocacy/fireSafeCig.htm

``The Massachusetts Tobacco Ingredients and Nicotine Yield Act is at:
www.state.ma.us/legis/laws/mgl/94-307B.htm
The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals Decision is at:
www.ca1.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl

*** 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:
www.tobacco.org/articles.php

***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...
www.gao.gov/atext/d03485.txt

*** 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.)
www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/Dioxins-Cigarette-Smoke.htm

*** 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!): www.gascape.org/index%20/Health%20effects%20of%20Dioxins.html

***Interesting. "Smokers" job performance better than non-smokers! Journal of Psychology. 2002 May;136(3):339-49 Related Articles, Links
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi t_uids=12206282&dopt=Abstract

***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: www.ncfap.org
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
tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/9/3/283

Check out these websites for burn accelerants added to cigarettes:

www.burnsurgery.org/Modules/prevention/firesafecigarette/sec1.htm
> www.ash.org.nz/doc/l-doc/0000573.html
> 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:
>
> www.avora.com/fr_body_3.html
> www.fibersource.com/f-tutor/health.htm
> irc.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/cbd/cbd243e.html