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Our Stolen Evidence...Against the Pesticide/Dioxin Cartel

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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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