Radition Just Smoked You!

Cannabis is often compared to tobacco, with the damage caused by smoking tobacco given as a reason to prohibit use of cannabis. Yet most of the harms caused by tobacco use are due not to tar, but to the use of radioactive fertilizers. Surprisingly, radiation seems to be the dangerous and important factor behind tobacco lung damage.
Radioactive Fertilizer
It’s a well established but little known fact that commercially grown tobacco is contaminated with radiation. The major source of this radiation is phosphate fertilizer.
1). The big tobacco companies all use chemical phosphate fertilizer, which is high in radiactive metals, year after year on the same soil. These metals build up the soil, attach themselves to the resinous tobacco leaf and ride tobacco trichomes in tobacco smoke, gathering in small “hot spots” in the small- air passageways of the lungs.
2). Tobacco is especially effective at absorbing radioactive elements from phosphate fertilizers and also from naturally occurring radiation in the soil, air and water.
3). To grow what the tobacco industry calls “more flavorful” tobacco, Us Farmers use high - phosphate fertilizers. The phosphate is take from a rock mineral, apatite, that is ground into powder, dissolved in acid and further processed. Apatite rock also contains radium, and radioactive elements lead 210 and polonium 210. The radioactivity of common chemical fertilizer can be verified with a Geiger - Mueller counter and an open sack of everyday 13-13-13 type of fertilizer (or any other chemical fertilizer high in phosphate content).
4). Conservative estimates put the level of radiation absorbed by a pack- and- a- half a day smoker at the equivalent of 300 chest X- rays every year.
5). The Office of Radiation, Chemical and Biological Safety at Michigan State University reports that the radiation level for the same smoker was as high as 800 chest X- rays per year.
6). U.S. Surgeon General C Everett Koop stated on the national television in 1990 that tobacco radiation is probably responsible for 90% of tobacco related cancer. . Researchers have induced cancer in animal test subjects that inhaled polonium 210, but were unable to cause cancer through the inhalation of the non - radioactive chemical carcinogens found in tobacco.
7). The most potent non- radioactive chemical, benzopyrene, exists in cigarettes in amounts of sufficient to account fro only 1% of the cancer found in smokers.
By: David Malmo



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