Here in Mass, we are now smoking cigarettes with the new slow burning papers. Has anyone else smoked these toxic butts? Can anyone tell what these papers are made of? I am feeling a little under the weather, since I have been forced to smoke these phuckers......./ Can anyone help me to understand the chemicals I am now forced to inhale?

Billy

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I linked the Harvard study on post #33
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Actually stuff is added to the paper to make it burn. I used to smoke Sherman's (and still would if I could get them at a reasonable price in this state). If you don't puff on them, they go out. No additives.

Of course, things being as they are, I wouldn't be surprised if they're mandating that toxic chemicals be added. Tobacco alone doesn't kill most of its users, and even the genetically susceptible don't die quickly enough. A whirlwind epidemic of new smoking-related diseases would be a great shot in the arm for the anti-tobacco industry.

Why can't tobacco be treated like any other consumable, where the contents have to be listed on the label along with the hazards, and outrageously toxic additives are simply prohibited?

Because that makes sense, that's why. And it doesn't suit the agenda of enforced denormalization.

Please note that the drug companies have NO problem with tobacco or nicotine. Therefore it would follow that the toxic portion of smoking must be the paper.

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Originally posted by Robert A Cook:
Why can't tobacco be treated like any other consumable, where the contents have to be listed on the label along with the hazards, and outrageously toxic additives are simply prohibited?

I don't think there are any toxic additives. This is from B&W:

In 2000, B&W used 299 ingredients in the manufacture of different tobacco blends to produce cigarettes for sale in the U.S. and for export to overseas markets. This composite ingredient list...

Every tobacco ingredient on the B&W list has been reported to the federal government. All of these tobacco ingredients are either a food, a beverage, an approved food additive, an approved tobacco product additive, or affirmed to be acceptable for addition to foods by an Expert Body such as the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA...All of these tobacco ingredients are permitted for use in cigarette tobacco by a regulatory body....