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Subj: The most DEADLY Tobacco Facts (beyond Nicotine)
feds refuse to tell the public
Dear Citizens, Patriots, Veterans, Smokers,
their families, and side-stream Smokers:
Please read this incredible post about the most deadly facts about
tobacco smoke. Even after the $238 billion states' governments and
tobacco industry scam supposedly settled the issue, our government
and the tobacco companies still refuse to reveal to the public the
REAL story of the harm done by tobacco.
I will be writing a follow-up to this investigate research report
about the outcome of the $238 billion "settlement" that was
supposed to solve the problems.
THE TOBACCO - FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY
Original Publication date: July 1987
Revised Publication date: March 1991
by Michael Johnson (Investigative Research Reporter)
Are Tobacco Companies Clandestinely and Illegally
Treating Smokers Medically Without Their Knowledge?
Marina Del Rey, CA -- It is now common knowledge -- although
tobacco companies still deny it -- that smoking, chewing, snuffing,
sucking, or using tobacco in any form can increase a person's risk
of developing cancer and cardiovascular diseases.
The U. S. Public Health Service, the U. S. Surgeon General, the
American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association, and the
American Heart Association all declare and document the health
hazards of using tobacco.
There is current evidence that tobacco companies have purposely
increased the amount of nicotine -- a highly addictive chemical
stimulant -- in tobacco in order to get smokers "hooked" and
addicted to tobacco.
This is to force smokers to continue smoking and using tobacco so
that tobacco companies can maintain their profits and continue
operating their businesses, despite the known disease risks. And
smokers have an extremely difficult time quitting due to the
physiological and psychological addictions associated with tobacco
use. Not only that, but the 1986 Surgeon General's Report documents
that side-stream, or secondhand smoke, is even more dangerous and
disease-causing to nonsmokers than to smokers.
But there is an even more insidious crime being perpetrated against
the public by the tobacco companies and that is that the tobacco
companies may be conducting illegal and clandestine human medical
treatment and experimentation without authorization or medical
license upon unsuspecting tobacco users without their knowledge.
This medical experimentation is in the form of adding to the
tobacco certain toxic chemicals and medicines in order to secretly
prevent and treat some of the diseases that the tobacco companies
allege are not caused by tobacco.
Specifically, the tobacco companies, by their own published
admission in their trade publications, introduce a deadly
pesticide-rodenticide called Warfarin or coumarin into the tobacco
as a "flavoring." They call it a "flavoring" in order to cover up
its true identity -- that is Rat Poison!
What is even more incredible is that the federal Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF), any doctor, biologist, chemist, or
licensed pest control technician or agency, and even the U. S.
Department of Agriculture, the U. S. Food and Drug Administration,
the U. S. Public Health Service, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA),
the Poison Control Center, and the Center for Disease Control
agencies, and the various health organizations listed in the
opening paragraph have known that coumarin-like compounds and
Warfarin have been used as the active ingredient in rat poison
since 1948.
It is unthinkable that these protective agencies and professional
personnel have not been able to "put two-and-two together" and
realize that tobacco companies purposely add coumarin, which is a
deadly poison formulated to kill mammals, specifically rodents,
into tobacco, thereby making it extremely dangerous for human
consumption.
Likewise, it is equally unconscionable that these agencies have
known that coumarin or Warfarin is added to tobacco and they have
not banned either the use of coumarin in tobacco or tobacco use
itself. Unthinkable and unconscionable as an this is, even the
state of California enacted the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic
Enforcement Act of 1986 and listed on July 1, 1987 in Chapter 3,
Section 12000: Chemicals Known to the State to Cause Cancer or
Reproductive Toxicity that Warfarin (with Chemical Abstracts
Service (CAS) Registry Number 81812), in fact, does cause
reproductive toxicity in humans.
Isn't it amazing that within only one-half inch to one inch above
and below the name Warfarin in a vertical column of a toxic
chemicals list that tobacco smoke is listed to cause reproductive
toxicity in both human males and females?
By grade school deduction, doesn't it make sense that the reason
tobacco smoke causes reproductive toxicity is because of the
Warfarin in the tobacco? As incredible as all this may seem, this
is not the worst of the bad news! Scientists worldwide have
determined that smoking tobacco, in addition to causing cancer also
causes heart attacks and strokes, or cardiovascular and
cerebrovascular diseases, respectively.
The mechanism is essentially the same in both heart attacks, which
affect the heart, and strokes, which affect the brain. Tobacco
smoke not only causes constriction of the blood vessels that supply
oxygenated blood to the heart muscle cells and brain cells, but it
also causes the blood to form clots that can occlude blood flow to
these highly delicate and sensitive tissues. If a tiny artery or
capillary becomes clogged by a blood clot the tissue and cells
immediately downstream of the blockage starve for oxygen.
Within five minutes, irreversible heart and/or brain cell damage
and tissue death occurs which causes the heart attack, or coronary
infarct, and/or cerebrovascular (brain) accident (CVA) or stroke.
Just what role do the tobacco companies play in this drama? The
tobacco companies claim that carefully controlled scientific
studies have never been able to prove explicitly or conclusively
that tobacco use causes cancer or any other disease. The only
"quasi" proof that the scientific researchers have been able to
produce is through statistics that demonstrate that there is a very
high correlation between tobacco use and cancer and cardiovascular
diseases.
But the tobacco companies claim that statistics never proved
anything. In fact, the tobacco industry has been able to show that
there are statistically more nonsmokers who develop cancer and
other related diseases than smokers (and, therefore, smoking
doesn't cause cancer and other diseases, they claim).
The current scientific explanation to answer the tobacco industry's
claims is that because a smoker gets a more concentrated dose of
tobacco smoke, a smoker's bodily defense and immune systems are
readily activated due to the high concentration of harmful
substances taken into the smoker's body and the smoker is
immediately protected. However, in the case of a nonsmoker, the
concentration of tobacco smoke inhaled by a nonsmoker from a
smoker's cigarette is much lower -- so much so that the nonsmoker's
defense systems are not activated and never get a chance to
counteract the effects of the harmful tobacco smoke.
Additionally, it has been shown that the mainstream smoke from a
burning cigarette being inhaled gets filtered through the length of
tobacco and since the combustion temperature is very high, there is
a more complete combustion of tobacco and smoke products making
them less toxic. But in the case of nonsmokers inhaling side-stream
or secondhand smoke, the side-stream smoke burns at a lower
temperature which creates much more dangerous and more toxic smoke
particles and by-products, thus, making them more harmful to
nonsmokers even at a lower concentration of tobacco smoke.
But, so what? What does all of this have to do with the tobacco
companies adding rat poison to the tobacco? How do they treat
smokers medically? The rat poison is Warfarin or coumarin-like
compounds that are blood anticoagulants. If tobacco smoke does, in
fact, cause blood clots that block the coronary (heart) arteries
and the cerebral (brain) arteries, then treating smokers, through
the tobacco they smoke, with the administration of an anticoagulant
may prevent blood clots from forming.
According to the Physician's Desk Reference (PDR), 45th edition,
1991, Product Information (pp. 547-548) and the United States
Pharmacopeia (USP), 1990 edition (pp. 129-131, 699-701) on
prescription drugs and medicines, Warfarin, coumarin, and a similar
anticoagulant, Heparin, are used in surgery to prevent blood clots
from forming secondary to an operation, such as open heart surgery,
and the treatment for certain blood vessel, heart, and lung
conditions.
The contraindications for the use of coumarin and Warfarin in
humans are the very same reasons it is used in rat poison. These
anticoagulants cause the tiny capillaries and blood vessels to leak
blood and cause internal bleeding or hemorrhage. In rats and in
humans they cause gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and respiratory
tract bleeding, in addition to cerebrovascular hemorrhage and
cerebral and aortic aneurysms.
In essence, rats and humans bleed to death internally and
externally, which can be caused by capillary damage and/or very
slight injuries or bumps and bangs, similar to the physiological
effects caused by the deadly Ebola virus (hemorrhagic fever)
infection. Warfarin does cause extensive liver, kidney, and adrenal
gland damage as well.
Dr. Donald Frear in Chemistry of the Pesticides (pp. 437-443)
states that "the ideal rodenticide has been deemed as being
odorless, tasteless and inevitably fatal, although it should be
slow acting in order that all rodents in the area will have an
opportunity to consume the poison without becoming suspicious."
He continues that "the symptoms of acute poisoning should be
absent, to avoid bait shyness, and the manner of death should be
such that no suspicions are aroused in the rodent population
surviving."
This same non-suspicious reaction is present in tobacco smokers.
William Hallenbeck and Kathleen Cunningham-Burns in Pesticides and
Human Health (p. 15) state that Warfarin and coumarin-like
compounds are "anticoagulants and antimetabolites of vitamin K and
inhibit the synthesis of prothrombin (the clotting agent in blood).
They explain that "repeated exposure is usually required for damage
to occur," and that "numerous small exposures may be more damaging
than one large dose" They also say that "since the rodents do not
develop bait shyness they are fed to capacity until death."
The same is true For tobacco smokers (they are fed tobacco smoke to
capacity until death by cancer, heart attack, or stroke).
The Association of American Pesticide Control Officials, Inc., in
Pesticide Chemical Compendium, 1959 edition (p. 272) states that
Warfarin "kills by causing hemorrhage when ingested over a period
of days," and that "death (is caused) without evident pain or
violent reactions -- autopsy shows hemorrhage, hematomas, internal
organs pale from oxygen lack."
The PDR (pp. 547-548), also, states that Warfarin can cause
spontaneous abortions, fatal hemorrhage to the fetus in utero, and
birth malformation in children born to women treated with Warfarin
during pregnancy. The PDR (pp. 547-548) warns that "the most
serious risks associated with anticoagulant therapy are hemorrhage
in any tissue or organ" and necrosis and/or gangrene of the skin
and other tissues which have led to death and/or permanent
disability. "Severe cases have necessitated debridement or
amputation of the affected tissue, limb, breast or penis."
Therefore, it is very likely that the tobacco companies are hiding
behind a curtain of clandestine deception, in one instance denying
the dangers of heart attacks and strokes in smokers (because of
"lack of proof"), and in the next instance medically treating
smokers to prevent them from developing coronary occlusions and
strokes due to blood clots with the induction or Warfarin or
coumarin in the tobacco.
It is time for our protective health agencies to analyze the
morbidity and death statistics of smokers (and nonsmokers who work
and live around smokers) to determine if there is a higher
incidence of hemorrhage-type of disorders in them. Incidentally,
even if coumarin added to tobacco could prevent clot-type strokes
in the brain, an overdose in very small quantities over a long
period of time could cause a bleeding or hemorrhagic stroke which
is just as devastating.
Is the tobacco industry practicing medicine without a license? Are
the tobacco companies secretly adding coumarin or Warfarin to their
tobaccos in a clandestine attempt to prevent or reduce some
incidences of blood clot-caused coronaries and cerebrovascular
accidents that they will not admit to publicly?
A. A. Shmuk in volume III of The Chemistry and Technology of
Tobacco, published in 1953 (pp. 548-555) states that coumarin and
methylcoumarin were introduced into tobacco as an "aromatizer."
Akehurst in Tobacco, 1966, (pp. 410-475) states that additives and
flavorings are added to tobacco to improve it for two main reasons:
"1) To mask faults such as bitterness, and generally soften the
smoking taste and, with the aid of perfumes, to create a pleasing
aroma from the tobacco. 2) To retain moisture and make the tobacco
less susceptible to changes in atmospheric conditions."
Akehurst (p. 473) continues that of the many different additives
used in tobacco, the tonka bean whose active ingredient is
coumarin, "emphasizes and holds the natural flavor sensations of
the tobacco blend." Editor Ernst Voges in Tobacco Encyclopedia,
1986, states that the allegations made against tobacco as being a
cause of lung cancer and other diseases have not been proven. He
says that "most of the allegations against smoking are based on
'statistical associations' found in epidemiological studies." And
that it is agreed among scientists "that a statistical association
does not establish causation" (p. 460).
One additional reason coumarin and sweeteners such as sugars are
added to tobacco is because tobacco smoke is so harsh and toxic
that a person would cough out the smoke before the addictive
nicotine would have a chance to be drawn into the lungs and
absorbed. The sweeteners allow the smoke to go into the lungs and
remain long enough for the smoker to get his or her addictive "fix."
Times staff writers Minnie Bernardino (September 26, 1985) and Joan
Drake (October 22, 1987) have written in the Los Angeles Times
newspaper that the imitation vanilla, "Mexican vanilla," which is
made from the tonka bean, a member of the pea family, contains
coumarin which was banned by the U. S. Food and Drug
Administration in the 1950s because researchers found that coumarin
caused liver damage when fed to rats. The National Academy of
Sciences in Toxicants Occurring Naturally in Foods ,1973, ( pp.
453-455) adds that coumarin has caused growth retardation and
testicular atrophy in dogs and bile-duct carcinoma in cats.
So, why does the U. S. Food and Drug Administration not stop the
tobacco companies from using coumarin in tobacco? The reason is
bureaucratically simple: Tobacco is not controlled by the Food and
Drug Administration but by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and
Firearms which does not regulate food. And, as it was explained to
us by a very high ranking technical official at the BATF,
Scientific Services Chemist John Steele, via telephone conversation
on March 30, 1991, although the tobacco companies are prohibited
from using coumarin as a food additive, they secretly import it
dissolved in alcohol. Alcohol is not regulated as a food and the
BATF has no guidelines or regulations regarding coumarin dissolved
in alcohol.
So, the tobacco companies get away with medical malpractice and,
literally, murder (deaths of smokers due to heart attacks, strokes,
and cancer), all in the name of business viability and profits.
Oh, by the way, we started this research project in 1987 when we
found out from a list of chemicals found in tobacco published in
the Los Angeles Times that coumarin was listed by the tobacco
companies as a "flavoring." It is unbelievable that mainstream
America and its protective government agencies still don't know its
ramifications! On March 30, 1991, we called the BATF and asked them
for a list of ingredients of additives in tobacco. We were told
that there is a list but it is not available to anyone because it
involved patented proprietary trade secret formulas and recipes
that not even the U. S. Congress had access to. This is now the
summer of 1997, and we still don't know if the tobacco companies
have voluntarily divulged their "trade secret" formula tobacco
additives.
With the information related above, it is our sincere conviction
that the tobacco companies know of the dangers of using coumarin in
tobacco, and that they may be clandestinely and deceptively
attempting to medically treat smokers to prevent "coronaries" and
strokes through the action of coumarin. This could also be an
attempt to throw off the statistics that show tobacco causes these
cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. At any rate, the
tobacco companies should be investigated for performing human
medical experimentation without authorization and practicing
medicine without a license or the informed consent of the smokers
involved.
Additionally, the tobacco companies should be investigated for
sneaking coumarin through the regulatory agency loopholes,
especially in light of the fact that coumarin has been banned for
use in food and its use must be prescribed by a licensed physician,
as patients must be continuously monitored for any adverse
reactions.
To prove to yourself that coumarin and Warfarin are used as rat
poison, just go down to the nearest supermarket and read the label
on a package of d-CON Ready Mixed Generation II Kills Rats and Mice
advanced anticoagulant formula rodenticide rat poison. If you see
any word that refers to anticoagulant, Warfarin, or any scientific
chemical that has the word root of "-coum-" in it, you should be
convinced.
One last thought regarding tobacco and its alleged cause of lung
cancer. It has already been proven that any form of radioactive
contamination or radiation causes many types of malignant tumors or
cancer. It is absolutely incredible to us that the tobacco
companies and the U. S. Department of Agriculture both know that
tobacco leaves have unsafe quantities of radioactive elements and
isotopes that emit alpha, beta, and gamma radiation and, yet, they
still claim that tobacco does not cause lung cancer.
T. C. Tso writes in Physiology and Biochemistry of Tobacco Plants,
1972, (pp. 91-99) a publication from Plant Science Research
Division of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, that many
publications from 1953 through 1970 report the presence of gamma,
alpha and beta radiation in leaf tobacco and tobacco smoke. In
fact, there is so much radiation that the publication states that
"most research efforts conducted by plant scientists in the
radioelement area are aimed toward identifying the source of
radiation and toward finding means for reduction or removal' (p.
92). There is so much radiation that they have been able to devise
intricate tables of the radionuclides and the decay scheme of
uranium series. Some of the radioactive isotopes found in tobacco
are radioactive potassium, rubidium, strontium, cesium, radium,
polonium, radon, uranium, ionium, astatine, and lead.
If even low levels of radiation from radon, radium, and uranium can
cause cancer -- specifically lung cancer -- why can't radioactive
contamination in tobacco cause cancer? How can the tobacco
companies say tobacco does NOT cause lung cancer? More importantly,
how can the U. S. Department of Agriculture develop the body of
knowledge of radiation in tobacco, then sit idly by and not divulge
the information, especially in light of the current, June 1997,
negotiations between 40 state's attorney's general and the tobacco
industry here in America?
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