Smoke are you worried about BUGS

[Baraka Obam]

Here is somthing KNOWN FOR YEARS, when you get cigaretts you are LITTERALLY smoking bugs and larva worms. I do mean live moving worms. When you see a ciggerett spark you just burnt a big live JUICY BUG. Don't believe me, unravel that stogie and take a look. Your Happy WORM smoking days are OVER. Oh they even inhabit the filter. Next time you are lighting up one of these nicotein nipples remember, worms have protein. Is protein good to smoke????

Bugs Found In Cigarettes - West Virginia's Eyewitness News

This is just one of a million bugs in the cigeretts they may evenget some rats and snakes, both taste like chicken I hear. What say you?

[Jo]

Gulp. I've recently caught 6 cigarette beetles in my home (THEY FLY), but I dont smoke. They can invade food stocks, not just tobacco, and they look very much like the furniture beetles that cause wood worm.

Jo (geekin out)

[Sadsack]

I once found a BEAR in my cigarette when I used to smoke

Seriously, there are worse things. Take a look at what is found in food:

The Food Defect Action Levels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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[carla]

I know smoking isn't a nice habit but calling her a Big Chimney Woman was well out of order.


Jo ,Are you serious about the Beetles in your place ?

[Jo]

Originally Posted by carla

I know smoking isn't a nice habit but calling her a Big Chimney Woman was well out of order.


Jo ,Are you serious about the Beetles in your place ?

yeh Carls. Here's a couple of shots of them showing tinyness against size of needle point and white wing trailing.

They were brown specs on my window sill and I caught one in mid flight!! sheeesh.

Jo xxx

[hurtin1]

Health Benefits of Cigars - Cigar Tobacco Used As Medicine to Benefit Health

Tobacco Medical Uses - Survivalist Forum

Does morgs qualify as a major catastrophe?

[Sadsack]

The Shocking Ingredients in Cigarettes

By Melissa Breyer, Senior Editor, Healthy & Green Living
If you think cigarettes are simply dried tobacco leaves rolled in paper, you’re about 597 ingredients off. The tobacco industry has become master mixologists with the additives. Some ingredients are added for flavor, but research has shown that the key purpose of using additives is to improve tobacco’s potency resulting in increased addictiveness–and the additives they choose to use are dreadful.
I remember hearing something about “the list” back in the 1990s when tobacco companies first started being taken to task for their dastardly ways, but seeing the list again now that I’m educated about chemistry and health, I am absolutely staggered. It’s amazing this isn’t in the news everyday! It’s bad enough that many of these ingredients are approved for use in food–but that they haven’t been tested for burning? When burnt, the whole mess results in over 4,000 chemicals, including over 40 known carcinogenic compounds and 400 other toxins. These include nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide, as well as formaldehyde, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic, and DDT.
You know it’s bad when the Phillip Morris website has this posted on their homepage: Nearly 5,000 chemicals have been identified in tobacco smoke to date. Public health authorities have classified between 45 and 70 of those chemicals, including carcinogens, irritants and other toxins, as potentially causing the harmful effects of tobacco use.
According to Dr. and Mrs. Quit, also known as Lowell Kleinman, M.D., and Deborah Messina-Kleinman, M.P.H., from the Quit Smoking Center, cigarette flavors have gone through many changes since cigarettes were first made. Initially, cigarettes were unfiltered, allowing the full “flavor” of the tar to come through. As the public became concerned about the health effects of smoking, filters were added. While this helped alleviate the public’s fears, the result was a cigarette that tasted too bitter. (And filters do not remove enough tar to make cigarettes less dangerous. They are just a marketing ploy to trick you into thinking you are smoking a safer cigarette.)
The solution to the bitter-tasting cigarette was easy–have some chemists add taste-improving chemicals to the tobacco. But heck, once they got rolling they figured out they could really maximize the whole addiction part, what a hook. They found that a chemical similar to rocket fuel helps keep the tip of the cigarette burning at an extremely hot temperature, which allows the nicotine in tobacco to turn into a vapor so your lungs can absorb it more easily. Or how about ammonia? Adding ammonia to cigarettes allows nicotine in its vapor form to be absorbed through the lungs more quickly. This, in turn, means your brain can get a higher dose of nicotine with each inhalation. Now that’s efficiency.
For a start, here’s the who’s who of the most toxic ingredients used to make cigarettes tastier, and more quickly, effectively addictive:
Ammonia: Household cleaner.
Arsenic: Used in rat poisons.
Benzene: Used in making dyes, synthetic rubber.
Butane: Gas; used in lighter fluid.
Carbon monoxide: Poisonous gas.
Cadmium: Used in batteries.
Cyanide: Lethal poison.
DDT: A banned insecticide.
Ethyl Furoate: Causes liver damage in animals.
Lead: Poisonous in high doses.
Formaldehyde: Used to preserve dead specimens.
Methoprene: Insecticide.
Maltitol: Sweetener for diabetics.
Napthalene: Ingredient in mothballs.
Methyl isocyanate: Its accidental release killed 2000 people in Bhopal, India, in 1984.
Polonium: Cancer-causing radioactive element.
For the whole list of 599 additives used in cigarettes, see the BBC Worldservice page What’s in a Cigarette.

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[Sadsack]

The Food Defect Action Levels

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Food Defect Action Levels: Levels of natural or unavoidable defects in foods that present no health hazards for humans is a publication of the United States Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition[1] detailing acceptable levels of food contamination from sources such as maggots, thrips, insect fragments, "foreign matter", mold, rodent hairs, and insect and mammalian feces.
The publication details the acceptable amounts of contaminants on a per food basis, listing both the defect source (pre-harvest infection, processing infestation, processing contamination, etc.) and significance (aesthetic, potential health hazard, mouth/tooth injury, etc.). For example, the limit of insect contaminants allowed in canned or frozen peaches is specified as: "In 12 1-pound cans or equivalent, one or more larvae and/or larval fragments whose aggregate length exceeds 5 mm."[1]
The Food Defect Action Levels was first published in 1995. A printed version of the publication may be obtained by written request to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Health hazards

Though insect fragments are classified as an aesthetic problem, trace amounts of insect parts may have adverse effects for people with allergies and asthma.[2] The Food Defect Action Levels states that these contaminants "pose no inherent hazard to health."[1]

ProductType of insect contaminationMaximum Permissible LevelCanned sweet cornInsect larvae (corn ear worms or corn borers)2 or more 3 mm or longer larvae, cast skins, larval or cast skin fragments, the aggregate length of insects or insect parts exceeds 12 mm in 24 poundsCanned citrus fruit juicesInsects and insect eggs5 or more Drosophila and other fly eggs per 250 ml or 1 or more maggots per 250 mlCanned apricotsInsect filthAverage of 2% or more by count has been damaged or infected by insectsChocolate and chocolate liquorInsect filthAverage is 60 or more insect fragments per 100 grams (when 6 100 g subsamples are examined)Peanut butterInsect filthAverage of 30 or more insect fragments per 100 gramsWheat flourInsect filthAverage of 150 or more insect fragments per 100 gramsFrozen broccoliInsects and mitesAverage of 60 or more aphids and/or thrips and/or mites per 100 gramsHopsInsectsAverage of more than 2,500 aphids per 10 gramsGround thymeInsect filthAverage of 925 or more insect fragments per 10 gramsGround nutmegInsect filthAverage of 100 or more insect fragments per 10 gramsGround cinnamonInsect filthAverage of 80 or more insect fragments per 10 gram

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[Sadsack]

Cigarettes Are Bacteria Sticks, Too: Scientific American Podcast

This January, the country Turkey will join a handful of European nations that require “visual health warnings” on every pack of cigarettes. These images include things like diseased lungs and a foot sporting a toe tag. But maybe a Petri dish overrun with bacteria should make the list. Because a new study shows that cigarettes are contaminated with a bevy of nasty bugs, including some that cause disease. The report will appear in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

Burning and inhaling that heady mix of tar and nicotine, not to mention the benzene and other chemicals in tobacco smoke, can promote lung cancer and emphysema. And now it seems that cigarettes could also deliver a dose of respiratory infection. Scientists used what are called gene chips to identify the microbes present in four different brands of smokes. And the list they found reads like a syllabus for Microbiology 101: it includes Acinetobacter, clostridium, klebsiella and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, all of which can make people sick.

The researchers think some bugs can probably survive in the smoke. (inhalation sound) Ahhhhh. So carcinogenic. And now, with bacterial pathogens!

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[posey]

All this is in cigs., and all the stuff in food.

I know I'm rationalizing, but if the food is so bad to, and with high anxiety levels right now, is it wise to go cold turkey or slowly cut them out?

We can not afford my smoking any longer,and since "this" has happened to me I had been smoking 2 packs a day. When I realized what I was doing I cut back but I d want to give 'em up. My issue is willpower. I am so weak. I think it is more f a psychological thing for me than the nicotene adiction.

They most definitely are one of the most gross things on earth. But here again is money, money, money, die, die ,die. Raise them taxes and die die die.

Cigs. and alcohol are the 2 most addicting drugs in the world. Counselor told me that when I worked in auditing med. charts in Behavioral Health.

Forgot to THANK YOU Baraka!! Seriously, and from my heart. I need to hear/read stuff like this.
God bless you for bringing this up.