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For Smoke-Haters and Smokers. A few info links.

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Wednesday September 17, 2003 03:07author by Watchdogauthor email jejonik at juno dot com

Copy this and give to your local Pub proprietors...and lawyers.

While we all look at Iraq, which is largely about oil, we miss Big Oil's dodge of liabilities in the "anti-smoke" crusade in Ireland (etc) that, among other things, ignores many petroleum-based tobacco pesticide residues. It's one thing to smoke tobacco...it's another to smoke pesticide residues IN tobacco.

Unless much or most of the info below is incorporated into "anti-smoke" legislation, the whole deal is a massive injustice. It's packaged as "for our health" but it's quite the contrary.
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This is backup material for another posting here at:
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=60521&search_text=Smoking
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** April ('03), the General Accounting Office (GAO) condemned lax government monitoring of tobacco pesticides. See: Wash Post > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32003-2003Apr24.html > http://ens-news.com/ens/apr2003/2003-04-25-09.asp#anchor2

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/61129

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