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End the use of radioactive, cancer causing phosphate fertilizer in growing tobacco. It is the main reason tobacco kills.

Created by G.R. on September 30, 2011

It's a little known fact that commercially grown tobacco is contaminated with radiation. The major source of this radiation is phosphate fertilizer. The big tobacco companies all use chemical phosphate fertilizer, which is high in radioactive metals, year after year on the same soil. These metals build up in the soil, attach themselves to the resinous tobacco leaf and ride tobacco trichomes in tobacco smoke, gathering in small "hot spots" in the small-air passageways of the lungs. Tobacco is especially effective at absorbing radioactive elements from phosphate fertilizers, and also from naturally occurring radiation in the soil, air, and water. US Surgeon General C Everett Koop stated on national television in 1990 that tobacco radiation is probably responsible for 90% of all cancer...

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