Cigarette Additives...

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but what is really in most cigarettes?


In April of 1994 the five major American cigarette companies submitted to the Dept. of Health and Human Service a list of 599 additives to commercially manufactured cigarettes. 

(Note: The list of ingredients had been kept a secret prior to this.)

This list is something every smoker should see.

http://doc-haynes.com/observations/cigarettes.html << click that link for the list.

 The US Government approves this list!

The next time you're smoking a cigarette, take a good long look at this list and see cigarettes for what they really are: a delivery system for toxic chemicals and carcinogens.While these ingredients (amazingly for some) are approved as additives for our foods, they were not tested by burning them, and it is the burning of many of these substances which changes their properties, often for the worse. Over 4000 chemical compounds are created by burning a cigarette, many of which are toxic and/or carcinogenic. Forty-three known carcinogens are in mainstream smoke, sidestream smoke, or both.Carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, hydrogen cyanide and ammonia are all present in cigarette smoke.

It sickens and disapoints me that I am craving a cigarette so badly right now.


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You Don't Know Shit (If You Think We Are Running Out Of Energy)

  I have been working for years, on turning human waste into electricity and other energy resources. It is nice to see, that others have joined in this most logical of endeavors. It does not look like our future is going to have any shortage of raw material from which to derive abundant energy.

  Just think, your poop could actually end up being worth something.

  Human waste is an abundant and thus far, mostly untapped source of fuel, that we could be using to power our homes, vehicles and industries. The fact that we are not already using this renewable energy source truly baffles me. We spend billions to find and develop oil and gas fields in far distant lands, in order to extract the finite amount of crude fuel we can find there, but we ignore the (pardon the expression) crude that lurks just above our chair.


(Note, this article is not yet finished. doc)

Observations

  Welcome to Observations.

  Looking at my forty-seventh birthday looming just days from now, it would seem, that perhaps I have reached a point in my life, when I have probably made more trips around the sun by now, than I will make in my remaining days. So, it seems only fitting that I should share some of my observations with you, while I still have the chance. This blog is one attempt to do just that.

  Do not expect order here. Do not expect that I will only be covering any narrow topic. What you will find here may be eclectic at the best of times and possibly chaotic at other times. Much as my life has been while making the observations that I will share here. Some of this information will be current, while some may cover issues that are long past and only of consequence to someone attempting to figure out why I think the way I do.

 One thing I have definitively observed during my journey through life is, that the world can be an unkind place and living a long time under such conditions, is not easy, especially for the uninformed.