Tobacco Chemicals
(Canada)
Ever wonder where all those cancer causing chemicals come
from that the government always tells us are in tobacco?

Well so did I. So I suspected that these chemicals are not
natural to this organic plant. When I was working on my Uncles farm,
he was showing and explaining to me about all the precautions that
had to be taken in applying such on food plants. He explained that
he had to be licensed by the government to use these dangerous
chemicals.
I found out that his son went to southern Ontario to pick
tobacco plants every summer. So out of curiosity I asked him. Do you
know if there are any restrictions or regulations on the chemicals
that are allowed to be applied on tobacco plants? To my astonishment
he said that there were no restrictions.
Now I knew I was onto something. I also later found out
that the tobacco farms are so contaminated by chemicals, that when a
farm stops producing tobacco. They can not grow food items on this
farm for at least 50 years (by government order)
Another thing I suspect is that over the years all the
chemicals that were produced and found later to be hazardous to
human health, were applied to tobacco plants. They had a large stock
pile of banned chemicals. They thought it would be a great way to
get rid of the excess chemicals.
Since I felt that cigarettes like food were consumed by
humans, I thought that something was very wrong with this situation.
So I wrote a letter to the federal health minister. Hon Minister
Allan Rock of health Canada March 17, 2001 I mentioned to him my
concerns.
It took some time to get a response, and when I did he did
not deny by points. I was very dissatisfied with his response. And I
sent a copy of my letter to many tobacco companies. I later received
a phone call from a very interested major tobacco company executive.
The executive was amazed at my findings. So I took this opportunity
to ask the tobacco executive a few questions. I asked do the tobacco
companies have anything to do with the growing of tobacco. The
answer was NO. I asked if they added any chemicals to tobacco, the
answer was NO. So I then said that its amazing to me how the
Government knows that they are adding cancer causing chemicals to
the plants and that the government was guilty of hiding this
information from the public.I had heard the govern in a trial of the
tobacco companies, that the tobacco companies were wilfully hiding
information from the smokers. When in fact it was the government
doing that.

At the time of my communication with the tobacco company.
They were losing their cases in courts and being penalized with huge
fines. This was all over the news. The tobacco companies went back
to court with my information. And all of a sudden all the penalties
seemed to disappear. I haven't heard, that there has been another
judgement against the tobacco companies since.

Ever wonder why cancer for smokers is highest in developed
countries. Because undeveloped countries (such as Cuba) do not use
chemicals on their plants.
Daniel J
Towsey Oct 2005