Encourage FDA to ban the sale of tobacco products with pH < 8, to reduce inhaling, carcinogen exposure and lung cancer.

Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death, causing more than 440,000 deaths in the US and six million worldwide annually. Smoking causes 90% of lung cancers, the leading cause of cancer death in women and men and one-third of all cardiovascular disease deaths; moreover, one-half of smokers die prematurely if they don't stop. Tobacco companies have used flue curing, genetic engineering and/or additives to lower the pH of tobacco and ionize nicotine in the lungs, so that more is absorbed in the large surface area of lung capillaries. The Family Smoking Prevention & Tobacco Control Act of 2009 gave the FDA regulatory authority for the manufacture and sale of all tobacco products. If FDA bars sale of tobacco with pH < 8, there will be less inhaling and less lung cancer.