You are just the object of our disgust at these subtle fallacies that are implanted into the collective conscious of the people by corporate swine! The cigerette issue is one of the most devisive ever amongst even people who are close ! Family members are wailing at each other people are divorcing over this issue lines are being drawn all because of this propaganda!The second hand smoke issues are some of the most pitiful lies and false studies ever devised! Studies in other countries say the issue is felonious ! Some stats claim second hand smoke emits as many carsenogens as the exhaust from a diesel truck! lol and people believe it ! Have you ever sat in a closed room with a diesel truck ! You would be dead in minutes! thats how over the top this issue is!

Ah, Patricia & Chaz, it's going to be a fine day for me, starting the day out with yer 2 posts!

I do hope at any rate that heavy smokers of chemical-added ciggies will take some Ester-C and eat lots of vegetables. We were not meant to smoke heavily, nobody is. I hardly ever smoke any more because I can't find those pure-tobacco type cigs here in Canada; I can no longer import them. Big Brother & his Health Nazis are watching out for my welfare, you see. The only time I ever chain-smoked was when glued to the tee vee watching the 9-11 attacks.

I do not know if it is pesticide-free or not, because I have not smoked it in a few years, but it is called Natural American Spirit (additive-free). It's possible that they are now making their cigs from organically-grown.

My favourite cig of all time is from the Sherman Co. (New York) - "Virginia Circles". They have a line of additive-free gourmet cigs, quite pricey if you ask me; also, they come in hard cardboard packages that open like a little box. I do think it is worth looking for them.

If you live in a large city in the USA, you should have no problem. If you live in a town where you can't find them, you can order them, both Natural American Spirit and the Sherman's. The Canadian fascist-socialist govt. made it illegal for us here to use the Post Office to get cigs from your country,and the private courier companies are following suit to avoid trouble.

What you said about people getting cancer after quitting - I have heard this, also. I used to know an old woman (she's gone now) who when she was in her 60s went to the hospital for a problem unrelated to smoking. She thought that she should try to quit because people were bugging her to do so, and she was feeling so stressed about it that her doctor told her not to try to quit!!! She lasted a long, long time.

In a book I read, a doctor said that people who are real old today are way stronger than the young people, and that is why they can handle tobacco. In other words, if you were born ,say, in 1975, and smoke a lot, you probably would get an illness related to smoking, but if you were born in 1900, you could smoke all your life and probably nothing would happen. I can't stress enough that we have to look at the angle of OVERALL LIFESTYLE,not just one factor. Amen!

Many years ago, I remember reading about a mine in Saskatchewan (or maybe it was Manitoba)that mined potash (I think). Anyway, there was a rash of cancer cases, mostly throat and lung. To the surprise of the health authorities, it wasn't the smokers who were affected - it was the non-smokers. They theorized that the coal tar from the cigarettes formed a protective coating on the air passages. Who knows eh!