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Formaldehyde is known as a human carcinogen (cancer-causing substance) by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, and as a human carcinogen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency(EPA). Formaldehyde in sidestream cigarette smoke is evident in concentrations of up to three times above occupational limits, which readily accounts for eye and nasal irritation.

Formaldehyde is also found in embalming fluids used to preserve bodies and lab specimins. That frog in the jar at school is floating in formaldehyde.

The tobacco industry uses formaldehyde in order to preserve tobacco moisture. Yummy.

Source: Smoke Free Home

 COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - A local musician and anti-smoking activist died Wednesday evening after a long battle with lung cancer, according to his family.Chris Conner was a member of the Midlands band Sourwood Honey, and was diagnosed with lung cancer earlier this year.

Chris was a smoker for 16 years and quit two years before becoming ill.

Let’s be clear. The evidence is in, and cigarette smoking is drug addiction, not sin.  Big Tobacco is a legalized pusher and they are targeting your children, the next generation of addicts.

Our hospitals, nursing homes and morgues are full of their victims from cancer and cardio-vascular disease. And we subsidize it all from our own wallets with higher insurance premiums, higher taxes for Medicaid, Medicare and disability payments. Businesses subsidize tobacco addiction with lost productivity from sick and dying workers.

So let’s not fool ourselves. The Big Tobacco drug pusher has bought protection from Republican politicians and from you, the public.

So let’s not fool ourselves with arguments about fairness for the nicotine addict and the constitution. We lost, children lost and the drug pusher won.

– Bill Ryan, Salem Statesman Journal