More info on the so-called organic cigarettes
Here is what I found on the internet yesterday ( am unable to find the website source):
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" KILLER ADS
An ad on recycled paper with sunflowers, and talk of beneficial insects and earth-friendly agricultural practices - must be for something good for the planet and your body. Or is it? In fact, it's just the latest in a string of misleading advertisements for American Spirit cigarettes, that when used as intended will kill just as effectively as any other tobacco product. The ads do not claim their products are safer, and they do include a required warning, but the implicit claims are an association between natural, organic and health.
Check the Internet and you'll find hundreds of posted comments from misled smokers who buy the myth that organic cigarettes are somehow healthier for you. But, burn a 100 percent natural organic cigarette and you can actually inhale higher concentrations of tar and nicotine than regular cigs, and the smoke has greater levels of toxic agents such as carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, ammonia and carcinogenic hydrocarbons. That's right, these nasty toxins are not added by evil tobacco companies, they occur naturally as a result of burning a dried organic material called tobacco. The problem is "lighting organic material and sucking it into your lungs" as Michael Erikson, chairman of CDC's Office on Smoking and Health put it.
This clever but misleading marketing of Natural American Spirits also suggests a small, environmentally conscious company that is affiliated with Native Americans. Neither is true - they are owned by one of the largest U.S. tobacco corporations - R.J. Reynolds. EW should take a more informed and socially responsible position and reject future tobacco corporation ads."
written by = Julia Martin , Eugen
_____________ and I found this article on how Reynolds did indeed buy out the company :
http://robots.cnn.com/2001/BUSINESS/12/12/tobacco.re/
Uggggghhhhhh..... :(
_______________________________
" KILLER ADS
An ad on recycled paper with sunflowers, and talk of beneficial insects and earth-friendly agricultural practices - must be for something good for the planet and your body. Or is it? In fact, it's just the latest in a string of misleading advertisements for American Spirit cigarettes, that when used as intended will kill just as effectively as any other tobacco product. The ads do not claim their products are safer, and they do include a required warning, but the implicit claims are an association between natural, organic and health.
Check the Internet and you'll find hundreds of posted comments from misled smokers who buy the myth that organic cigarettes are somehow healthier for you. But, burn a 100 percent natural organic cigarette and you can actually inhale higher concentrations of tar and nicotine than regular cigs, and the smoke has greater levels of toxic agents such as carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, ammonia and carcinogenic hydrocarbons. That's right, these nasty toxins are not added by evil tobacco companies, they occur naturally as a result of burning a dried organic material called tobacco. The problem is "lighting organic material and sucking it into your lungs" as Michael Erikson, chairman of CDC's Office on Smoking and Health put it.
This clever but misleading marketing of Natural American Spirits also suggests a small, environmentally conscious company that is affiliated with Native Americans. Neither is true - they are owned by one of the largest U.S. tobacco corporations - R.J. Reynolds. EW should take a more informed and socially responsible position and reject future tobacco corporation ads."
written by = Julia Martin , Eugen
_____________ and I found this article on how Reynolds did indeed buy out the company :
http://robots.cnn.com/2001/BUSINESS/12/12/tobacco.re/
Uggggghhhhhh..... :(