Dioxins

 Big Mystery...Why did Greenpeace USA bag out of its pretty good Dioxin Campaign?

  That happened about the time that A) the US finally classified dioxin a Known Human Carcinogen, B) the US signed the (still unratified) POPs Convention to phase dioxin (and 11 other worst industrial pollutants) off the earth, AND C) when the Dioxin-Ignoring "anti smoking" crusade really got rolling.

   With hosts of chlorine  pesticide residues in typical (not all) cigarettes, and with the still "legal" chlorine bleached cig paper, AND with who-knows-what pesticide contaminated filler "helper" materials, those kinds of cigs kick out HIGH levels of dioxin.   Google up "Muto Takazawa Dioxin Cigarette Smoke" for starters.   Heck, Lois Gibbs mentioned this in her "Dying From Dioxin", and the flipping EPA even noted it in its Dioxin Re-assessment.   That is, the issue is KNOWN...but, to protect Big Chlorine et ilk, it's just ignored.

   How many Nam vets, already hit with Agent Orange dioxins, came home to get the same damn stuff in their unlabeled cigs?    It ain't from tobacco or ANY natural plant. It's from industrial chlorine.

 But chlorine, unlike tobacco, isn't seen as "sinful".  Religion is swell, eh?

by John Jonik (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 4 comments) on Thursday, May 1, 2008 at 7:20:38 PM