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To: Rain-maker
Maybe Big Tobacco will wise up and leave out all that added crap they put in the smokes?

The adds are intellectually dishonest. The chemicals "supposedly" put in tobacco mostly are naturally occuring chemicals. For instance Urea is a basic biological nitrogen waste product - cells are always making it and its in almost anything you eat. Because it's a waste product it is removed from the blood in the kidneys and then it gets urinated out. So yes, urea is in urine, and it's in tabacco, but it's also in anything biological. Like that steak? There's urea in that steak - just like your urine. Dishonest?

I guess intellectually dishonest is a "bad" thing when it is applied to legal drugs like nicotine, but when our government makes intellectually dishonest adds about illegal drugs and terrorism that's ok? Hypocritical at best!

13 posted on 02/13/2002 4:10:39 AM PST by realpatriot71
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To: realpatriot71
Specifically, I was talking about the additives, and not what compounds are present in natural leaf tobacco.

The following 599 ingredients have been identified in tobacco industry documents as being added to tobacco in the manufacturing of cigarettes by the five major American cigarette manufacturing companies. 


17 posted on 02/13/2002 4:58:59 AM PST by Rain-maker
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To: realpatriot71
I guess intellectually dishonest is a "bad" thing when it is applied to legal drugs like nicotine, but when our government makes intellectually dishonest adds about illegal drugs and terrorism that's ok? Hypocritical at best!

Yeah, and now that we've found out that drug sales help not only communist rebels in Columbia, but also the "valient freedom fighters" opposing them, the hypocrisy continues to march on. So I guess if you buy cocaine, you are either a patriot or a supporter of terrorists, depending on if you buy AUC coke or FARC coke...
23 posted on 02/13/2002 6:21:07 AM PST by WyldKard
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