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laodan discovered 21 months ago- The Radioactive Ciggy in The Anthropik Network by Jason Godesky Tobacco often appears as a sacred power in Native American lore. It is given to spirits, and is believed to have medicinal properties. This seems jarring, given what we now know about smoking. How could these same Natives, who had such comprehensive command of the medicinal and edible plants around them, mistake the carcinogenic nature of tobacco? Of course, when we carefully examine the history of tobacco, we find something very curious. Cancer often leaves skeletal evidence, and old ethnographic accounts can often be used to piece together symptoms of diseases unknown to the original ethnographer, yet evidence of lung cancer among Native Americans before the 20th century remains rare. In 1990, then Surgeon General C. Everett Koop declared on national television that 90% of all smoking-related cancers were caused not by tar or any of the other factors we normally think of, but radioactivity. URL: The Radioactive Ciggy URL: Radioactivity in tobacco causes cancer
Industrial agriculture and the Green Revolution make tobacco radioactive... and this radio-activity causes cancer but not tobacco per se. Proof lies in the skeletal evidence that lung cancer was rare among 19th century indigenous people who smoked profusely. The use of phosphate fertilizers and other pesticides is what makes tobacco radioactive and carcinogenic... well, well and big capital again succeeded to hide the truth from our eyes!
- The Radioactive Ciggy in The Anthropik Network by Jason Godesky Tobacco often appears as a sacred power in Native American lore. It is given to spirits, and is believed to have medicinal properties. This seems jarring, given what we now know about smoking. How could these same Natives, who had such comprehensive command of the medicinal and edible plants around them, mistake the carcinogenic nature of tobacco? Of course, when we carefully examine the history of tobacco, we find something very curious. Cancer often leaves skeletal evidence, and old ethnographic accounts can often be used to piece together symptoms of diseases unknown to the original ethnographer, yet evidence of lung cancer among Native Americans before the 20th century remains rare. In 1990, then Surgeon General C. Everett Koop declared on national television that 90% of all smoking-related cancers were caused not by tar or any of the other factors we normally think of, but radioactivity. URL: The Radioactive Ciggy URL: Radioactivity in tobacco causes cancer
