Published: September 7th, 2011 at 3:43 pm ET
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Japan Tobacco: Nicotine, Yes; Radioactivity, No, Wall Street Journal, September 7, 2011:
Japan’s smokers can breathe easy, more or less: whatever else is in their cigarettes, there’s no radiation, according to Japan Tobacco Inc. [...]
Trace amounts of combined radioactive cesium-134 and 137 were detected in 27 of the 35 samples, JT said. The highest amount measured 217 Bq/kg in a sample from Kashima, Ibaraki prefecture. [...]
Published: September 7th, 2011 at 3:43 pm ET
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Oh boy…only 217 Bq/kg! What a relief…for a minute I thought they had found parts of fuel rod plutonium debris in the tobacco.
Just a few dabs of cesium to incinerate into your lungs…no problem.
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I’d be worried about plutonium dioxide particles in my death stick.
You know, that would certainly make cigarette smoking go by the wayside pretty quickly…
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Funny, cigs are already naturally radioactive with lead-210 and polonium-210. Tobacco leaves also accumulate chemical compounds we call explosives.
Pathetically, the cig industry knew all this 30years ago, they also found the solution – aluminum particles placed in the filter of the cig will remove the polonium-210, an easy and CHEAP fix that is denied 2 us
Please note that the alluminum molecule comes into play frequently for capturing these radionuclides – BENTONITE, ZEOLITE -
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According to this article, the amount of cesium found in Japan’s leaf tobacco is more than was found in Chernobyl’s leaf tobacco:
“Radioactive Leaf Tobacco, 217 Bq/Kg of Cesium – 30 Bq greater than after Chernobyl”
http://enformable.com/2011/09/radioactive-leaf-tobacco-217-bqkg-of-cesium/
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WSJ….WSJ….now who is it who owns WSJ…..oh, yes, of course. Tip: Don’t even think about wrapping your fish in WSJ.
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I’m gonna take a wild guess and say Rupert Mudock with a hand in R.J. Reynolds
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It is survival of the fitest. That goes for brains as well….has anyone added up all the beq/kg Japan citizens will eat in a day, a week, a month, or a year? Would think smoke sticks would be the last thing to use…
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How does that count as “no radiation”? The Pol-210 in tobacco has long been suspected to be the source of lung cancers among tobacco smokers, as lung cancers did not occur in such high frequency among tobacco smokers before the dawning of the nuclear age allowed them to use low level nukewaste as free fertilizer.
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Swear I read C. Edward Coop, Surgeon General during the Reagan era, say the same thing somewhere
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i hear they use radioactive fertilizers on big-tobacco… so when i get the enenews Geiger-counter from ocifferdave for my three days, i’m going to test some tobacco products straight off the shelf at the store on video.
and of course they can claim it all came from fukushima, but if they use that same fertilizer that they use for school-lawns, there’s radiation in it.
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stop smoking a few weeks ago
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