Tobacco Company Spins Wheels with New Prototypes
June 16th, 2009 by Rick
According to Join Together, British American Tobacco (BAT) has developed prototypes of cigarettes with different filters and tobacco that burns less toxic smoke, by treating it with special enzymes.
That’s actually scary that they could place enzymes into a cigarette that changes it’s properties… makes you wonder what else they could add. Apparently a shitload of ingredients because it’s already been done.
200 very lucky people in Hamburg, Germany will get the chance to try these bad boys while they are exposed to various scientific tests measure their biological reactions as well as to ascertain if they will consume less toxins with these prototypes.
Editor’s note: I doubt reinventing the way a cigarette burns and changing a filter will reduce the toxins. The key to reducing the toxins is eliminating the sheer number of chemical additives that are in a cigarettes that become toxic when they burn And why is it that cigarettes are the only product that exists that doesn’t list ingredients? Perhaps it’s just the reality of Big Tobacco.
Toxicity of Illicit Substances
March 30th, 2007 by Alex
An interesting article from the American Scientist was published that discusses the ratio of a fatal does to effective dose of almost all the illicit drugs on the market today.
It’s a thought-provoking concept that gives you a visual understanding of the toxicity of many of the drugs we consume today.
As you can see, alcohol is a lot more toxic than most people realize, while marijuana is as non-toxic a substance as you’ll ever come across.
Let’s see what the article has to say on this subject:
The least physiologically toxic substances, those requiring 100 to 1,000 times the effective dose to cause death, include psilocybin mushrooms and marijuana, when ingested. I’ve found no published cases in the English language that document deaths from smoked marijuana, so the actual lethal dose is a mystery. My surmise is that smoking marijuana is more risky than eating it but still safer than getting drunk.
A simple ratio such as this exposes a large problem in the United States, the least toxic substance know to man is now illegal, and the major cause behind the imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of Americans.
I wonder how long simple, scientific evidence such as this is going to be ignored?
[via The Daily Dish]
