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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It                99
found unsafe here [in the US], leaves a trail of victims throughout the world, from
the workers who handle it, to farm laborers exposed to it, families who live near
the farms and plantations, consumers overseas and here in our own country [the
US]. When it reaches home we start paying attention.
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One cannot deny that chemicals have benefited the world. In fact, in America today one
could not imagine what life would be like without chemicals; nearly everything we use on a daily
basis is made with chemicals. Yet, America has deceived the third world by exporting chemicals,
which had been banned for use in the United States. The motive for selling these chemicals is
profit. The lives that suffered and died as a result of the sale of these banned chemicals were,
seemingly, of no regard to these corporations.
Tobacco
Smoking tobacco is addictive. “In 1988, the surgeon general warned that the nicotine in
tobacco products was as addictive as the drugs heroin and cocaine.”
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However, many recovered
drug addicts say that the addiction to smoking is much stronger than other drugs. For years the
tobacco companies maintained that smoking was not addictive and that it was not harmful to
your health and all along they knew the truth.
Commercial production of tobacco began in Virginia in 1612. It was first cultivated by
the ungodly men of Jamestown. From the beginning it was suspected that tobacco was not good
for your health. Today the United States is the number two producer and consumer of tobacco in
the world behind China. Tobacco is now an important crop in 60 nations with total worldwide
production at 8.5 million tons; a total of 5 trillion cigarettes.
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There have been 4,800 chemical compounds identified in cigarette smoke. Of these, at
least 69 are known to cause cancer in both humans and animals. The five major American
cigarette manufacturers add up to 599 chemicals to their cigarettes. By law, these chemicals do
not have to be disclosed and they “are not tested for health and safety in a manner comparable to
food ingredients.” The chemical which naturally occur, are a result of cultivation, or are
additives other than nicotine include: acetone (nail polish remover), ammonia, arsenic, butane,
cadmium, DDT, ethanol, formaldehyde, hydrogen cyanide, mercury, naphthalene, and vinyl
chloride.
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The World Bank describes smoking as a “man-made plague” which “is now the leading
scourge of the twentieth century”. Smoking related diseases now kill approximately 500,000 in
the US and approximately 4.9 million worldwide each year.
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Francisco Contreras in his book
The Coming Cancer Cure says that before cigarette smoking became common, “incidences of
lung cancer were rare.” Before 1898, there were only 140 cases worldwide of lung cancer
reported in the medical literature. This quickly changed with the increase in smoking. “In the
twentieth century, tobacco caused the deaths of about 100 million people world-wide.” In 2002
the expected number of deaths from lung cancer in the US were 154,900.
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According to the World Bank smoking presents a nation with direct and indirect costs
which, exceed the market value of the tobacco. Indirect costs include lost productivity. Direct
costs include health care for treating tobacco related diseases. “For the United States, direct
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