Tobacco Lawsuits

[Yodeler]

Maybe pure tobacco doesn't have as many carcinogens as hemp, but when you douse it in licorice, saltpeter, and about 150 other chemicals, then coat it in plastic so it stays fresh, I would bet that what comes in a cigarette is more dangerous to your health than mountain grown marijuana.....

I would challenge the contention that hemp has more carcinogens... 

(A "Marketplace" special several years ago stated that the average cigarette's tobacco has about 200 chemicals added.)

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It it were the added chemicals that were the culprit, wouldn't someone have come out with pure organic tobacco smokes by now?

In the 60's every smoker knew that it was the cigarette paper that was by far the worst part of a cigarette.

What did they put in tobacco in the 16th century when Robert Burton wrote:

"Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco,

which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable

gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy

to all diseases ... but as it is commonly abused by

most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a

plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands,

health, hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the

rui and overthrow of body and soul."

You know, I think that inhaling the smoke of anything that's on fire is bad for you.

Yet when the Liberals are seen flipping burgers at charcoal barbecues or mingling with children around the bonfire everybody says ... "ISN'T that nice"

[cybercoma]

In the 60's every smoker knew that it was the cigarette paper that was by far the worst part of a cigarette.

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If the paper is the by far worst part, then marijuana smokers who use pipes are much safer, right?

[Yodeler]

http://www.davehitt.com/facts/epa.html

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I glanced at the site you kindly provided but after reading ... "With a disease as rare as lung cancer" ... I lost interest.