J. Jonik emailed news about the FDA and its arbitrariness when it comes to pesticides. For example, nothing in the FDA’s “Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act” addresses the problem of chlorine-bleached cigarette paper, which, along with the chlorine pesticide residues, puts high levels of dioxin into smoke from typical contaminated products. Also, nothing in the Act addresses the once widely-publicized matter of cancer-causing radiation (Polonium 210) levels in smoke from tobacco grown with certain phosphate fertilizers. Some researchers estimated that over 90 percent of upper respiratory “smoking related” cancers were caused by this radiation, not by smoke from tobacco plants.
Nothing in the Act addresses the matter of fake tobacco made in patented ways from many kinds of industrial waste cellulose, none of it likely to be organic. There is no tobacco in such products for the FDA to “control” and the agency has not been given the job of regulating smoke from such items as peanut shells, corncobs, coffee bean hulls, carbon-filled paper, and other things covered by the fake tobacco patents. No studies have been presented to demonstrate a public health concern relating to non-tobacco products.
For that matter, no studies have yet been presented that make clear what was researched. Was it plain tobacco, fake tobacco, or typical highly-adulterated, dioxin-delivering, pesticide-contaminated, radiation-contaminated smoking products? The term “tobacco” is never qualified to make those crucial distinctions.
Source: http://www.zcommunications.org/net-briefs-by-various-contributors-1-2
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