Weed Killer in GMO Cigarettes
I used to smoke when I was younger. Like most young people, I thought I’d live forever, at least until I was 30 anyway, and after that who cared…life would be over!
At any rate, I soon got over my love affair with cigarettes and quit the things. I was fortunate…quitting was not that hard for me. But cigarette addiction has a stranglehold on many people, and they aren’t addicted to just the nicotine.
In fact, they are addicted to the chemicals that are added to cigarettes. These chemicals have been deliberately added specifically to make people more addicted.
The secret to cigarette addiction is treating the tobacco with ammonia (yum!) which makes the nicotine up to 35 times as potent. Big tobacco companies have been busted and convicted in the courts for using it.
Tobacco companies add 599 chemicals to their products to not only make them more addictive, but to also make them burn hotter and faster (so you smoke more) and so they won’t go out in the wind.
These additives change properties when they are ignited and they in turn create over 4,000 chemical compounds, nearly all of them toxic and/or carcinogenic.
So now, as if that isn’t horrific and evil enough, it turns out that nearly all of the tobacco grown in the US now has been genetically modified to tolerate the ultra-toxic weed killer RoundUp. This means that in addition to all the other chemicals, smokers are getting a dose of the herbicide glyphosate with every puff.
More and more people are waking up to the dangers of GMO crops. They are causing the massive bee die offs around the world (no bees to pollinate and we ALL die) as well as making people and animals sick.
Organic tobacco is an entirely different experience when smoked compared to commercial cigarettes. Since you aren’t inhaling a lab full of chemicals, natural tobacco cigarettes are not nearly as addictive or dangerous to smoke.
Tobacco is one of the traditional sacred herbs of Native Americans. It wasn’t until corporations got their greedy paws on the cigarette industry that a natural plant was turned into a deadly drug…all for profit
If you are a smoker who wants to quit, another really good reason to boycott commercial cigarettes is to help stop GMO agriculture!
Stephanie Kelley
