OpEdNews - Page 2 of Article: Our Stolen Evidence...Against the Pesticide/Dioxin Cartel

Fetal Damage and pregnancy disruption caused by natural plant smoke? Not a chance--- but the ample material about industrial pesticides and dioxin doing those harms makes the charges against tobacco absurd. That such researchers manage to keep their licenses is an indication of the depth and extent of this problem.

But there's more. Here are some more things blamed on, or "linked to"-, primary and secondary tobacco smoke---a.k.a. "smoking"- or "cigarettes"-, remembering that a typical cigarette may not contain any tobacco, unless it says so on the pack. It may be instead made from industrial waste cellulose camouflaged as tobacco"-with the added shot of nicotine, of course. Organic? That a typical cigarette is pesticide/chlorine-free is as likely as Bush and Cheney, or Exxon and Blackwater CEOs, turning themselves in.

The traditionally-used tobacco plant, and those disobedient, government-distrusting smokers, are indicted by corporate media and complicit journals, and by the industry-backed Anti Tobacco organizations, etc., for causing the following so-called "Smoking Related"- or "Tobacco Related"- diseases:

[Rather than printing out the long list of illnesses known to be caused by, or aggravated by, or just linked to, pesticides, chlorine, and dioxin, to match-up with this list of so-called "smoking /tobacco related"- diseases, items in the list that are all incidentally effects of, aggravated by, or linked-to pesticides are identified by a "P"-, and the chlorine/dioxin-related ones, with a "D"-. The designations are not meant to be thorough, just what was found from simple computer searches of the terms"-searches that "smoking"- researchers are loath to do. They are not paid to do that. They are paid to not do that.]

Cancers of the cervix (D, P), kidney (D, P), pancreas (D, P), and stomach (D, P);
Cancer of the bladder (D, P), esophagus (D, P), larynx (D, P), lung (D, P), mouth (D, P), throat (D, P);
Acute myeloid leukemia (D, P);
Abdominal aortic aneurysm
Cataracts (D, P);
Periodontitis (D);
Pneumonia (D, P);
Chronic lung disease (D, P);
Chronic heart and cardiovascular disease (D, P)
Reproductive problems (D, P);
Chronic bronchitis (D, P);
Atherosclerosis (D, P);
Hypertension (D, P);
Vascular diseases (D, P);
Stroke (D, P);
Tongue cancer (D);
Impotence (D, P)
Emphysema (D, P);
Asthma (D, P);
Osteoporosis (D, P);
Buergers Disease (lower leg circulation),
Diabetes (D, P);
Alzheimer's disease (P).
Sperm loss (D, P)
Premature hair loss (D, P);
Skin damage (D, P)
Learning disabilities (D, P);
Attention Deficit Disorder-ADD (D, P);
Hyperactivity and behavioral disorders (D, P);
Anxiety Disorders (D, P);
Multiple Sclerosis (D, P);
Miscarriages (D, P);
Premature birth (D, P);
Fetal distress (D, P);
Fetal death (D, P);
Child deformities- webbed toes etc. (D, P);
Halitosis (D);
Sleep apnea (D);
Overactive bladder (D, P);
Raynaud's syndrome (D, P);
Suppression of immune system (D, P);
Gene damage (D, P);
DNA damage (D, P);
Oral cancer (D, P);
Dental stains (D);
Hearing loss (D, P);
Inner ear infection (D, P);
Increase risk of malignant hypertension (P);
Breast cancer (D, P);
Testicular cancer (D, P);
Nausea (D, P);
Dizziness (D, P);
Rapid heart beat (D, P);
Insomnia (D, P);
Mild depression (D, P);
Mental illness (D, P);
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) (D, P);
Spontaneous abortions (D, P);
Inflammatory bowel disease (D);
and Burns.

Fire is a rare thing in that list not caused by, or aggravated by, the pesticide/chlorine industry, directly, at least as relates to toxicity or carcinogeneity. The still-legal burn accelerants in typical cigarettes come from citrates, phosphates, and official tolerance of fluffing up the cig stuffing to create more oxygen for burning, and official tolerance for paper made porous specifically to promote non-self-extinguishing, and profitable, and sin-tax-generating, fast-burning cigarettes. Profitable---as long as the perpetrators face no consequences for their contributions to the resultant fires, injuries and deaths. Fires, like baby deformities, are said to be "smoking related"-, caused exclusively by those easy targets"-"careless"- smokers. It is not mentioned that most cigarettes are designed and permitted to be virtual fuses"-incendiary devices.

Dioxin is a notorious immune suppressant, so every disease blamed on, or "linked to"- "smoking"-, or even resulting from getting a chill in the rain, is a result of, or is exacerbated by, chlorine's dioxin"-a still-legal, non-prohibited, component of cigarette smoke, and a substance now found in every human from other sources. Since inhalation is the worst possible exposure route for dioxin, since dioxin is a known human carcinogen, since even the USA signed the POPs Convention to phase dioxin off the earth as one of the worst dozen industrial pollutants, and since no smoker was warned or informed about dioxin contamination of cigarette smoke, justice requires that the burdens of law ought be dumped onto the chlorine/dioxin cartels instead of their victims.

Demonization of nature's own tobacco plant must be reconsidered. No study of effects of clearly described uncontaminated tobacco seems to exist. But if one did, a list of health problems resulting from use of plain, pesticide-free, chlorine-free, adulterant-free, perhaps grow-your-own, organic tobacco may look like this:
- Irritation from over-use.
- Irritation to those with industrially-damaged immune systems.
- Smelly hair and ashtrays.

Nicotine, despite withdrawal symptoms, has not been determined to be harmful. Indeed it's approved in all sorts of synthetic patented products made by anti-tobacco pharmaceuticals. Public interest justification for anti-tobacco legislation seems to be non-existent. Whether some enjoy the smell or not, in the American way, tobacco has been convicted without a trial. Injustice is so easily dumped on the unpopular.

What have been overwhelmingly determined to be harmful are the industrial cigarette adulterants. Every person said to have been harmed by tobacco, or by "smoking"-, deserves to be told the full story. They deserve to be tested for body burdens of the industrial substances, they deserve justice for the fraud of being sold smoking products as if they were just tobacco, and they deserve compensation for being harmed and for being treated as Guinea pigs--- poisoned and experimented upon without informed consent.

If "smoking"- and "tobacco"- are to be blamed, penalized and prohibited for the health effects that are from pesticide residues, chlorine, and dioxin (and many other non-tobacco cigarette adulterants), then every victim will be denied justice, the perpetrators will retain credibility to continue to pollute and contaminate wherever they want, the detrimental chemical substances will not receive proper attention or regulation, the organic movement will have a harder time becoming mainstream, anti-pesticide activists will have ignored perhaps the biggest pesticide crime in history, the medical professionals who aided, abetted and ignored this will retain their licenses, and the complicit public officials who let this all happen will stay in place"-as will the system that tolerates such private influence in public governing.

It is not just our evidence against industrial toxins and carcinogens that has been stolen, we have also been robbed of our health, untold number of lives, vast amounts of money, a safe environment, an independent health and medical science system, an unbiased judiciary, and a public regulatory system that serves the pubic welfare.

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