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Cigarettes contain added chemicals not in organic tobacco or cannabis. Yet it is still compared by cannabis prohibitionist, and still not mentioned or disclosed by tobacco prohibitionist or producers. Rising prices only hurt the poor who are forced into the black market or into buying generic brands with even more added chemicals. Even if cannabis was compared fairly to tobacco, the fact of its expectorant properties or lung cleaning abilities are seldom mentioned. It is safer to smoke tobacco while using cannabis. It was marketed as a cough elixer and those properties haven't changed. I have found it useful in helping seniors cough up phlegm and clear breathing passages and can't help to think how many kids die in ER's of full blown asthma attacks because of stupid drug policies concerned more with profits and maintaining ignorance over the health and safety of the citizens. Now NAFTA/GATT frees the corporate chemical cigarettes onto the world producing the diseases and illness never known when they used organic tobacco. No rocket surgery here, if you add chemicals to flavor or preserve and ignite them they may cause damage to the body. And if these chemicals aren't added to cannabis then they can't hurt you. Just wondering...
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Exporting Tobacco Addiction From The Usa
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Protect Children From Tobacco Addiction, Says WHO
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Tobacco Company Set Up Network of Sympathetic Scientists
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Media Enlist in Government Marijuana Crusade
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Chemicals in Tobacco
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One cigarette is not alone. Each cigarette from tobacco and filter to the paper it's rolled in is filled with chemicals, some added, some natural.

There are over 4000 chemicals in cigarettes. Some that you may recognize are:
Acetic Acid (vinegar), Acetone (nail polish remover), Ammonia (floor/toilet cleaner), Arsenic (rat poison), Butane (cigarette lighter fluid), Cadmium (rechargeable batteries), Carbon Monoxide (car exhaust fumes), DDT/Deildrin (insecticides, Ethanol (alcohol), Formaldehyde (preservation of body, tissue and fabric), Hexamine (barbecue lighter), Hydrogen Cyanide (gas chamber poison), Methane (swamp gas), Methanol (rocket fuel), Napthalene (mothballs), Nicotine (insecticide/addictive drug), Nitrobenzene (gasoline additive), Nitrous Oxide Phenols (disinfectant), Stearic Acid (candle wax), Toluene (industrial solvent), Vinyl Chloride (makes PVC)

Cancer-causing Agents:
Benzo(a)pyrene, B-Napthylamine, Cadmium, Crysenes, Dibenz Acidine, Nickel, Nitrosamines, N. Nitrosomes, P.A.H.s, Polonium 210, Toludine, Urethane

Metals:
Aluminum, Copper, Gold, Lead, Magnesium, Mercury, Silicon, Silver, Titanium, Zinc

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Nicotine fact sheet
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Nicotine is a substance found in tobacco. It is found in all tobacco products such as: cigarettes, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, and cigars. When a person smokes a tobacco product, they inhale the smoke which contains nicotine as well as over 500 chemicals.
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Tobacco Smoke Flavoring Contains Hazardous Chemicals Compounds May Pose Additional Health Risk to Smokers

Scientists have new data that toxic flavoring chemicals found in cigarettes are reaching smokers through cigarette smoke and may pose health hazards of their own. The finding is reported in the April issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, published by the American Chemical Society, the worlds largest scientific society.

The flavoring chemicals, known as alkenylbenzenes, are found in tobacco additives used to enhance the taste of cigarette smoke. Until now, no one knew how much of the compounds entered cigarette smoke, according to lead author David Ashley, Ph.D., at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

The researchers used a new detection method to analyze the cigarette smoke of eight U.S. brands. Previously, no method existed to easily and accurately measure the flavoring compounds in a single cigarette.

Long-term health effects from inhaling alkenylbenzenes directly or by second-hand smoke are unknown in humans, though earlier research associated them with cancer and lung damage in laboratory animals.

The National Academy of Sciences deems flavorings containing alkenylbenzenes safe for human foods. The additives, when eaten by humans, are thought to be safely eliminated by the liver. Cigarette smoke, however, delivers the chemicals to the lungs, where they spread through the body before the liver can screen them.

In the study, smoke from all types of cigarette filtered, unfiltered and menthol was tested for flavoring chemicals. Brand names were not released. Varying levels of five alkenylbenzenes were found in each, according to the researchers. In previous CDC research, researchers found one or more flavoring compounds in the tobacco of 42 of the 68 U.S. cigarette brands they examined.

One of the chemicals was found at levels up to four micrograms per gram of tobacco. Higher levels were found in the smoke when ventilation holes in the cigarettes filter were blocked.

In animals, exposure to the chemicals can cause cancer and lung disease. In rodents, for example, animals inhaling one flavoring compound eugenol show far more serious adverse health effects than animals eating it, according to previous research.

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Wire: Marijuana-Like Chemical Helps Relieve Coughs - Study
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Marijuana-Like Chemical May Control Coughing
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LUNG CLEANER AND EXPECTORANT
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Cannabis is the best natural expectorant to clear the human lungs of smog, dust and the phlegm associated with tobacco use. Marijuana smoke effectively dilates the airways of the lungs, the bronchi, opening them to allow more oxygen into the lungs. It is also the best natural dilator of the tiny airways of the lungs, the bronchial tubes - making cannabis the best overall bronchial dilator for 80% of the population (the remaining 20% sometimes show minor negative reactions). (See section on asthma - a disease that closes these passages in spasms - UCLA Tashkin studies, 1969-97; U.S. Costa Rican, 1980-82; Jamaican studies 1969-74, 76.) Statistical evidence - showing up consistently as anomalies in matched populations - indicates that people who smoke tobacco cigarettes are usually better off and will live longer if they smoke cannabis moderately, too. (Jamaicna, Costa Rican studies.) Millions of Americans have given up or avoided smoking tobacco products in favor of cannabis, which is not good news to the powerful tobacco lobby - Senator Jesse Helms and his cohorts. A turn-of-the-century grandfather clause in U.S. tobacco law allows 400 to 6,000 additional chemicals to be added. Additions since then to the average tobacco cigarette are unknown, and the public in the U.S. has no right to know what they are. Many joggers and marathon runners feel cannabis use cleans their lungs, allowing better endurance. The evidence indicates that cannabis use will probably increase these outlaw American marijuana-users' lives by about one to two years - yet they may lose their rights, property, children, state licenses, etc., just for using that safest of substances: cannabis.

Cannabis and Asthma
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More than 15 million Americans are affected by asthma. Smoking cannabis (the "raw drug" as the AMA called it) would be beneficial for 80% of them and add 30-a60 million person-years in the aggregate of extended life to current asthmatics over presently legal toxic medicines such as the Theophylline prescribed to children. "Taking a hit of marijuana has been known to stop a full blown asthma attack." (Personal communication with Dr. Donald Tashkin, December 12, 1989 and December 1, 1997.) The use of cannabis for asthmatics goes back thousands of years in literature. American doctors of the last century wrote glowing reports in medical papers that asthma sufferers of the world would "bless" Indian hemp (cannabis) all their lives. Today, of the 16 million American asthma sufferers, only Californians, with a doctor's recommendation, can legally grow and use cannabis medicines, even though it is generally the most effective treatment for asthma.

(Tashkin, Dr. Donald, UCLA Pulmonary Studies (for smoked marijuana), 1969-97; Ibid., asthma studies, 1969-76; Cohen, Sidney & Stillman, Therapeutic Potential of Marijuana, 1976; Life Insurance Actuarial rates; Life shortening effects of childhood asthma, 1983.)

THERAPEUTIC EMPHYSEMA POTENTIAL

Cannabis Treatment of Asthma
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Marijuana and Asthma
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Marijuana Research Could Help Asthma Sufferers, Scientists Say
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Health Aspects of Cannabis -Bronchial Asthma
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Effects of Smoked Marijuana in Experimentally Induced Asthma
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