Web of deception: GMO scientific safety ‘experts’ have close ties to Big Tobacco

In CategoryGenetic Modification, Tobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

All Genetically Modified Seeds, Crops, Drugs, Livestock, Food, Cosmetics, Beverages, Coors, Flavors, Ingredients CAUSE CANCER At Any Exposure Level, By Abnormally & Chemically Altering Telomerase Enzyme Chromosomal Integrity.

~ Uncle Russ

Advocates for genetically modified foods (we are most definitely not on that list) harp continually about how safe and how good for us they are.

Web of deception: GMO scientific safety ‘experts’ have close ties to Big Tobacco

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Busted! Co-author of Stanford study that bashed organics found to have deep ties to Big Tobacco’s anti-science propaganda

In CategoryBusiness, Genetic Modification, Tobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

To suggest real organic food, seeds, livestock and nutrition, that are VOID of insecticides, pesticides, herbicides, fungalcides, chemical and commercial fertilizer as well as genetic modification is somehow inferior to regular highly chemical and industrialized toxic offers is not only patently FALSE, but a TOTAL FRAUD.

 The authors of this study claiming there is no real benefit from organic offerings are bought and paid for shills for propagandists death merchants,  should be run out of science, as well as the funders of the study criminally prosecuted for FRAUD.

~ Uncle Russ

 

Over the last several days, the mainstream media has fallen for an elaborate scientific hoax that sought to destroy the credibility of organic foods by claiming they are “no healthier” than conventional foods (grown with pesticides and GMOs). NaturalNews has learned one of the key co-authors of the study, Dr. Ingram Olkin, has a deep history as an “anti-science” propagandist working for Big Tobacco. Stanford University has also been found to have deep financial ties to Cargill, a powerful proponent of genetically engineered foods and an enemy of GMO labeling Proposition 37.

Busted! Co-author of Stanford study that bashed organics found to have deep ties to Big Tobacco’s anti-science propaganda

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CDC Launching Graphic Anti-Smoking Ad Campaign

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

If Uncle Sam is so interested in getting rid of Tobacco, why are they accepting tax revenue for sales of Tobacco? They are NOT, the complete fraud and corruption of all of Washington, DC is to the core. Vote accordingly this Fall and take out every last incumbent.

~Uncle Russ

In a graphic new ad campaign announced Thursday, the government is trying to shock smokers into quitting with the sometimes-gruesome stories of people damaged by tobacco products.

CDC Launching Graphic Anti-Smoking Ad Campaign

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Farmers sue Big Tobacco, Monsanto for knowingly poisoning them with deadly pesticides that cause birth defects

In CategoryAgriculture, Farming, Etc, Baby/Children/Teen Health, Genetic Modification, Products, Health Dangers, Etc, Tobacco/Smoking, Toxins, Pollution, Contaminants, Chemicals, Etc
ByRuss Bianchi

OK, maybe it’s just me, but lighting something on fire, inhaling it, at great cost, that not only harms the inhalee, but all those around them, and polluting the world to shorten life, at great expense, has always been more than bizarre endeavor to me.

~ Uncle Russ

A group of Argentinian farmers says corporate biotechnology giant Monsanto, tobacco behemoth Philip Morris, and several other tobacco companies coerced the farmers into using dangerous amounts of Roundup (glyphosate) and other pesticide and herbicide products on their tobacco crops, which eventually resulted in a major spate of birth defects throughout the local community.

Farmers sue Big Tobacco, Monsanto for knowingly poisoning them with deadly pesticides that cause birth defects

 

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FDA: Tobacco Companies Must Report Ingredients

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

Tobacco companies will be required to report the levels of dangerous chemicals found in cigarettes, chew and other products under the latest rules designed to tighten regulation of the tobacco industry.

FDA: Tobacco Companies Must Report Ingredients

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Tobacco company misrepresented danger from cigarettes: study

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

(Note Sarcasm) Oh, gee, what a surprise, Tobacco Executives LYING to make profit, while legally KILLING millions of people!

This legal mass murdering (genocide without trains, concentration camps, gas chambers, SS, and crematoriums) is sanctioned by Big Tobacco’s pimp business partner, Uncle Sam.,

Uncle Sam (any incumbent member of the US Senate or US House) seeks tax revenue, and BRIBES (lobbying) for killing folks off, before their 17th Social Security (Ponzi Scheme) Check.

Uncle Sam wants you dead after 40 years of under paid work and extorted taxes.

Uncle Sam is in the drug, warfare, arms, genetically modified crops and livestock, alcohol, firearms, tobacco, chemicals, harmful food, harmful cosmetics, harmful beverage, dangerous nuke power, eco terror pollution oil drilling, and other mass killing businesses.

Uncle Sam does not want you to have a long life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness, Uncle Sam wants you enslaved or dead.

Want wellness, happiness, financial independence, and a long prosperous life for you and your family?

GOT ZIJA?!

~ Uncle Russ

A new UCSF analysis of tobacco industry documents shows that Philip Morris USA manipulated data on the effects of additives in cigarettes, including menthol, obscuring actual toxicity levels and increasing the risk of heart, cancer and other diseases for smokers.

Tobacco company misrepresented danger from cigarettes: study

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Cigarette vending machines banned in England

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

Cigarette vending machines were banned in England on Saturday, a move the government hopes will cut the numbers of children smoking.

Cigarette vending machines banned in England

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Tobacco Companies File Lawsuit Over Warning Labels

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

Tobacco companies want a judge to put a stop to new graphic cigarette labels that include the sewn-up corpse of a smoker and pictures of diseased lungs, saying they unfairly urge adults to shun their legal products and will cost millions to produce.

Tobacco Companies File Lawsuit Over Warning Labels

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EFSA: Uncertainties Remain on Safety of Smoke Flavoring Product

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

Considering the NOTORIOUS record of this attached article’s regulatory organization, in affirming extremely harmful ingredients as safe, when they are not, Zesti Smoke must be akin to active thermonuclear waste.

~ Uncle Russ

Summary:New data on Zesti Smoke Code 10, still result in an insufficient margin of safety and EFSA concluded its use is of safety concern at the proposed uses and use levels.

EFSA: Uncertainties Remain on Safety of Smoke Flavoring Product

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Scalia’s pro-tobacco order tossed by high court

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

(AP) — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia exercised a rarely used power last fall to let Philip Morris USA and three other big tobacco companies delay making multimillion-dollar payments for a program to help people quit smoking.

Scalia’s pro-tobacco order tossed by high court

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FDA Issues Graphic Cigarette Labels

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

Tobacco KILL$, HFCS KILL$, Alcohol KILL$, Chemicals KILL. Arms KILL, Drugs KILL…and whom is the beneficiary in tax revenue? Uncle Sam, their bought and paid for PIMP.

~ Uncle Russ

In the most significant change to U.S. cigarette packs in 25 years, the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday released nine new warning labels that depict in graphic detail the negative health effects of tobacco use.

FDA Issues Graphic Cigarette Labels

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FDA adds heart warning to Pfizer anti-smoking pill

In CategoryDrugs and Drug Companies, Tobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

Federal health regulators are warning doctors and patients that Pfizer’s anti-smoking drug Chantix may slightly increase the risk of heart attack and other cardiovascular problems.

FDA adds heart warning to Pfizer anti-smoking pill

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Lawsuit Blames Stop-Smoking Drug for Pennsylvania Killings

In CategoryDrugs and Drug Companies, Tobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

Drugs KILL, Plants CURE.

~ Uncle Russ

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The fathers of two people killed in a western Pennsylvania murder-suicide say a smoking cessation drug is to blame.

Lawsuit Blames Stop-Smoking Drug for Pennsylvania Killings

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CDC predicts smoking bans in every state by 2020

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

(AP) — By 2020, every state may have bans on smoking in restaurants, bars and the workplace, federal health officials predicted Thursday, based on the current pace of adopting anti-smoking laws.

CDC predicts smoking bans in every state by 2020

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Study finds ‘thirdhand smoke’ poses danger to unborn babies’ lungs

In CategoryBaby/Children/Teen Health, Tobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

Stepping outside to smoke a cigarette may not be enough to protect the lungs and life of a pregnant woman’s unborn child, according to a new study in the American Journal of Physiology.

Study finds ‘thirdhand smoke’ poses danger to unborn babies’ lungs

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Babies who sleep with smoker parents exhibit high nicotine levels

In CategoryBaby/Children/Teen Health, Tobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

“Third-hand smoke” stuck to skin or clothing is responsible for the high nicotine levels seen in babies who share a bedroom with their smoker parents. This is the conclusion of a study carried out in Catalonia, which also shows that ventilating bedrooms is not effective in reducing the levels of toxins from passive smoking.

Babies who sleep with smoker parents exhibit high nicotine levels

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New ‘dissolvable tobacco’ products may increase risk of mouth disease

In CategoryOral health, Tobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

The first study to analyze the complex ingredients in the new genre of dissolvable tobacco products has concluded that these pop-into-the-mouth replacements for cigarettes in places where smoking is banned have the potential to cause mouth diseases and other problems. The report appears in ACS’s Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

New ‘dissolvable tobacco’ products may increase risk of mouth disease

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Prevalence of heavy smokers in US decreases

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

From 1965 to 2007, the population prevalence of persons who smoked 20 or more cigarettes per day declined significantly, and there was also a decrease in the prevalence of smoking 10 or more cigarettes a day, with these declines greater in California than in the rest of the U.S., according to a study in the March 16 issue of JAMA.

Prevalence of heavy smokers in US decreases

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Plainly put, cigarette packaging matters

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

This week our government committed itself to the removal, albeit slowly, of cigarette displays in shops. But plain packaging on cigarettes has been delayed for further consultation.

Plainly put, cigarette packaging matters

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Secondhand smoked linked to stillbirth

In CategoryBaby/Children/Teen Health, Tobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

Pregnant women who do not smoke but are exposed to secondhand smoke are at increased risk of having a stillborn baby, a British review says.

 

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Tobacco smoking impacts teens’ brains, study shows

In CategoryBaby/Children/Teen Health, Brain/Mental Health, Tobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

Tobacco smoking is the leading preventable cause of death and disease in the U.S., with more than 400,000 deaths each year attributable to smoking or its consequences. And yet teens still smoke. Indeed, smoking usually begins in the teen years, and approximately 80 percent of adult smokers became hooked by the time they were 18. Meanwhile, teens who don’t take up smoking usually never do.

Tobacco smoking impacts teens’ brains, study shows

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Maryland lawmakers could ban smoking in cars with children

In CategoryBaby/Children/Teen Health, Government, Tobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

A bill to ban smoking in a car with a child, which has been stopped in committee four years running, may finally make it to the floor of the Maryland House of Delegates this year.

Maryland lawmakers could ban smoking in cars with children
 

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Cigarettes to vanish from shelves in England

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

Cigarettes will disappear under the tobacconist’s counter from next year in England under new measures announced Wednesday.

Cigarettes to vanish from shelves in

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Passive smoking increases risk to unborn babies, study says

In CategoryBaby/Children/Teen Health, Tobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

Pregnant non-smokers who breathe in the second-hand smoke of other people are at an increased risk of delivering stillborn babies or babies with defects, a study led by researchers at The University of Nottingham has found.

Passive smoking increases risk to unborn babies, study says

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Passive Smoking Increases Risk of Stillbirth and Birth Defects, Study Suggests

In CategoryBaby/Children/Teen Health, Pregnancy, Tobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

ScienceDaily (Mar. 9, 2011) — Pregnant non-smokers who breathe in the second-hand smoke of other people are at an increased risk of delivering stillborn babies or babies with defects, a study led by researchers at The University of Nottingham has found.

Passive Smoking Increases Risk of Stillbirth and Birth Defects, Study Suggests

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Scientists reveal key mechanism governing nicotine addiction

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have identified a pathway in the brain that regulates an individual’s vulnerability to the addictive properties of nicotine. The findings suggest a new target for anti-smoking therapies.

Scientists reveal key mechanism governing nicotine addiction

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Tobacco Smoking Impacts Teens’ Brains, Study Shows

In CategoryBaby/Children/Teen Health, Brain/Mental Health, Tobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

ScienceDaily (Mar. 7, 2011) — Tobacco smoking is the leading preventable cause of death and disease in the U.S., with more than 400,000 deaths each year attributable to smoking or its consequences. And yet teens still smoke. Indeed, smoking usually begins in the teen years, and approximately 80 percent of adult smokers became hooked by the time they were 18. Meanwhile, teens who don’t take up smoking usually never do.

Tobacco Smoking Impacts Teens’ Brains, Study Shows

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Smoking, couch-potato lifestyles boost cancer risks

In CategoryCancer, Tobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

Use it or lose it.

Also, GOT ZIJA®?!

~ Uncle Russ

Two studies released on Wednesday highlighted the risks and benefits of lifestyle choices in combatting cancer, showing the dangers of smoking for post-menopausal women and exercise’s protective effect on the bowel.

Smoking, couch-potato lifestyles boost cancer risks

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FDA panel findings could lead to curbs on menthol cigarettes

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

Menthol flavoring may make it easier to become addicted to cigarettes and may make smoking more alluring to young people, according to an FDA advisory panel’s preliminary report. Experts don’t expect the findings will lead to a ban on menthol, however.

FDA panel findings could lead to curbs on menthol cigarettes

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Breast cancer risk rises with 2nd-hand smoke

In CategoryCancer, Tobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

Women who are former or current smokers as well as those who have been exposed to decades of second-hand smoke face a higher risk of breast cancer after menopause, according to a new study.

Breast cancer risk rises with 2nd-hand smoke

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Lorillard and Reynolds Sue F.D.A.

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

Death Merchants Suing Pimps For Death Merchants.

~ Uncle Russ

Two major tobacco companies filed a lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration on Friday, contending that three members of an advisory committee had conflicts of interest that would taint any recommendations by the panel to the agency.

Lorillard and Reynolds Sue F.D.A.

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Smoking habits passed from father to son, mother to daughter, study finds

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

Children of parents who smoke are more likely to smoke themselves than other children, but according to a new study published in the journal Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, the genders of those involved can make all the difference.

 

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Smoking Ban for Beaches and Parks Is Approved

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

After a bitter debate over individual liberties and the role of government, the City Council on Wednesday handily approved a bill to ban smoking in 1,700 city parks and along 14 miles of city beaches.

Smoking Ban for Beaches and Parks Is Approved

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Obesity: ‘Like the new smoking’

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking, Weight Health
ByRuss Bianchi

It’s the HFCS/porn corn, stupid.

~ Uncle Russ

Two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese and, according to a growing body of evidence, at greater risk of getting, and dying of, cancer. ‘Obesity is almost like the new smoking,’ says one expert.

Obesity: ‘Like the new smoking’

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Smoking habits are transmitted from mother to daughter and father to son

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

A European research group has studied how smoking habits are transmitted within the home. The results show that, in homes where both parents are present, there is a significant degree of inter-generational transmission of smoking habits between parents and children, particularly between individuals of the same gender.

Smoking habits are transmitted from mother to daughter and father to son

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Historical Smoking Blamed For Shorter Life Expectancy Of Older US Residents

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

It’s a massive dumbing-down of any absorbable nutrient in process food and beverage with harmful substitutes being placed in for profit like HFCS also!

GOT ZIJA®?!

~ Uncle Russ

The U.S. spends more per capita on health care for its citizens than any other nation and, its proponents note, the quality is higher, but where area where spending has not helped is the life expectancy of older people – at least when it comes to increases in life expectancy.

Historical Smoking Blamed For Shorter Life Expectancy Of Older US Residents

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Smoking, obesity push U.S. lifespans lower

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking, Weight Health
ByRuss Bianchi

It’s The Uncle Sam (Congress)  Endorsed/Taxpayer Subsidized/Pimped HFCS, Bad For You Drugs, Booze, Tobacco, Chemicals, Genetically Modified Crops, Toxic Water, Harmful Food & Soda, Stupid.

~ Uncle Russ

The U.S. spends more on health care than any other nation yet has worse life expectancy than many, and a new report blames smoking and obesity.

Smoking, obesity push U.S. lifespans lower

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Smoking May Be Associated With Increased Risk of Breast Cancer

In CategoryCancer, Tobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

(Note Sarcasm)  No, Really?!  Show me a headline where smoking is NOT associated with a health risk….and I will show you a flat out lie, or set of lies, from Big Tobacco (who owns the majority of large food and beverage companies in the USA) and their business partner, seeking tax revenue, and pimp, Uncle Sam (Congress).

~ Uncle Russ

ScienceDaily (Jan. 25, 2011) — Smoking before menopause, especially prior to giving birth, may be associated with a modest increase in the risk of developing breast cancer, according to a report in the January 24 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Smoking May Be Associated With Increased Risk of Breast Cancer

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Shock findings in Scotland’s first smoking in cars study

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

(PhysOrg.com) — Smoking in a car exposes a child passenger to dangerous levels of poisonous particles … and even opening a window doesn’t protect them.

Shock findings in Scotland’s first smoking in cars study

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‘Thirdhand smoke’ may be bigger health hazard than previously believed

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

Scientists are reporting that so-called “thirdhand smoke” — the invisible remains of cigarette smoke that deposits on carpeting, clothing, furniture and other surfaces — may be even more of a health hazard than previously believed. The study, published in ACS’ journal, Environmental Science & Technology, extends the known health risks of tobacco among people who do not smoke but encounter the smoke exhaled by smokers or released by smoldering cigarette butts.

‘Thirdhand smoke’ may be bigger health hazard than previously believed

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Roll-your-own tobacco could be more addictive

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

Research carried out at Victoria University suggests smokers of roll-your-own tobacco may be more intensely addicted to the habit than those who puff on manufactured cigarettes.

Roll-your-own tobacco could be more addictive

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FDA to Require Substantial Equivalence Reviews for New Tobacco Products

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

Uncle Sam remains a pimp for death merchants. Congress instructs the FDA to regulate industries that not only generate tax revenue but KILL users (Big Pharma, King Corn, Meats, Dairy, Sweeteners, Alcohol, Chemicals, etc.). You are in clear and present danger if you are consuming the vast majority of center aisles supermarket products or those over the counter or prescription in drug stores.

GOT ZIJA(R)?!

~ Uncle Russ

Source:Food Ingredients First

Sector:General Company & Ingredient Information

Summary:In the FDA guidance, the agency outlines a pathway for marketing a product whereby the company marketing the product must prove that it is “substantially equivalent” to products commercially available on Feb. 15, 2007.

FDA to Require Substantial Equivalence Reviews for New Tobacco Products

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US Surgeon General lies by omission: Smoking one cigarette can kill you? Seriously?

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

In what can only be called a bizarre leap of pseudoscience, U.S. Surgeon General Dr Regina M. Benjamin recently announced that smoking one cigarette can kill you.

 

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Californians continue to kick the cigarette habit

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

The state’s percentage of smokers drops faster than the national average. Gender, income and other factors affect results.

Californians continue to kick the cigarette habit

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Court: FDA Can’t Stop Imports of E-cigarettes

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

More proof of the cut and run treasonous death merchants of Big Tobacco and Drug, working offshore to avoid litigation, poisoning America.

~ Uncle Russ

An appeals court is saying the FDA cannot stop imports of electronic cigarettes.

Court: FDA Can’t Stop Imports of E-cigarettes

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Nicotine feeds growth of breast cancer tumors

In CategoryCancer, Tobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

Nicotine is not just addictive, but may actually promote the development of breast cancer, according to a study conducted by researchers from Taipei Medical University and published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

 

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Warning: Cigarettes Are Scary

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

Did you know that cigarettes are addictive, tobacco smoke can harm your children, and that smoking can kill you?

Warning: Cigarettes Are Scary

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Tobacco firms bypass marketing restrictions with clever web campaigns

In CategoryMusic, Television, Technology, Etc, Tobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

Tobacco companies may be bypassing marketing bans by secretly posting promotional videos online, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Otago, New Zealand, and published in the journal Tobacco Control.

Tobacco firms bypass marketing restrictions with clever web campaigns

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Will plain cigarette packaging help deter smoking?

In CategoryTobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

U.K. officials have come up with a new proposition they say may help deter smoking: make cigarette packaging plain. Starting next year, government authorities in the U.K. will require cigarette manufacturers to block cigarette displays in stores to protect children.

Will plain cigarette packaging help deter smoking?

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Peruvian diggers find 2.5 million-year-old tobacco

In CategoryScience, Tobacco/Smoking
ByRuss Bianchi

Tobacco KILLS.

~ Uncle Russ

Paleontologists in Peru have discovered fossilized tobacco in the northern Amazon that dates back to the Pleistocene Era 2.5 million years ago, the scientists said Friday.

Peruvian diggers find 2.5 million-year-old tobacco

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