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None of those articles you provided state "American Cigarettes increase lung cancer risks more than Non-American Cigarettes" - Where are you getting this from?
by louislouis 16y ago
None of those articles you provided state "American Cigarettes increase lung cancer risks more than Non-American Cigarettes" - Where are you getting this from?
Also, the equivalent of 300 chest x-rays is based on 'pack-and-a-half' smokers not typical smokers and it doesn't say anywhere specifically from American cigarettes. This is also based on a lifetime consumption I believe.
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- Alex3917 16y agoWhen I say American cigarettes are more dangerous, what I really mean is that cigarettes are more dangerous than other forms of tobacco consumption, and American tobacco is more dangerous than other tobacco. For example, the levels of CEA (a cancer marker) in daily hookah smokers are so much lower than the CEA levels is cigarette smokers that they're actually statistically indistinguishable from non-smokers. Similarly, countries who don't grow tobacco in the same fields year after year using phosphate fertilizer have vastly less radioactive material in their tobacco. http://www.harmreductionjournal.com/content/5/1/19 http://www.harmreductionjournal.com/content/5/1/19 http://www.epa.gov/rpdweb00/sources/tobacco.html#footnote http://www.epa.gov/rpdweb00/sources/tobacco.html#footnote The research on what about smoking actually causes cancer isn't very good yet, but if you combine the research that has been done with the data that shows the different points in history where lung cancer rates vastly increased or decreased, it starts to paint a pretty clear picture. For example, according to wikipedia, "From the 1950s, the incidence of lung adenocarcinoma started to rise relative to other types of lung cancer.[135] This is partly due to the introduction of filter cigarettes. The use of filters removes larger particles from tobacco smoke, thus reducing deposition in larger airways. However the smoker has to inhale more deeply to receive the same amount of nicotine, increasing particle deposition in small airways where adenocarcinoma tends to arise." Again, there is no safe form of smoking, but all evidence points to the fact that smoking cigarettes made from American tobacco is vastly more dangerous than the ways in which people have used tobacco historically.
- louislouis 16y agothe CEA levels of hookah smokers is very interesting. Do all American tobacco farms use phosphate fertilizers and other countries don't?