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UNtruthful Super Bowl "Ads"?
Besides two reportedly scheduled Super Bowl "ads" that will "sell" the idea that non-corporate drugs are linked to terrorism, two others, also part of "War on Drugs", promise to be equally fraudulent.
ARE SUPER BOWL ADS TRUTHFUL?
See http://www.safetyalerts.com/t/g/truthcamp.htm for descriptions of two "anti-smoking" ads that are scheduled to be aired during the Super Bowl. They are from an organization called "truth"...though it's a mystery where they came up with that name.
The ads are intended to convince kids not to smoke but, by many questionable words and points, they ought be no more convincing than "Reefer Madness" warnings about the evils of marijuana. If this "anti- smoking" crusade can't be accurate and truthful, the crusade is proven to be a charade that, by pretending to oppose the cigarette industry, HELPS it and its ingredient suppliers and insurers and investors escape massive liabilities and PR disasters. It certainly ignores the Public Officials who allowed, and continued to allow, the incredible contamination of smoking products...products that are not even necessarily all or part tobacco ! (see US Patents). The lie of calling this stuff "tobacco", without heavy qualification, is just the start.
Some points re/ the scheduled ads:
1) The semi-famous "599 ingredients" are NOT "harmful chemicals in cigarette smoke" but are PART of the long list of UNTESTED, often-toxic and carcinogenic things ADDED to cigarettes...not all in any one cig, of course. Liquorice, for just one, is safe to eat but is damn harmful to smoke. It's still legal. Even anti-cig legislators let it stay! The ads seem to be specifically aimed at confusing the revealed 599 ADDITIVES with "599 substances in cigarette smoke". Hell...there's "599 substances" in probably ANY smoke. Additives' suppliers, and incompetent and corrupt regulators, are off the hook. Natural unpatentable public domain plant to take the fall.
2) If one wants to talk about harmful elements in the smoke, one NEEDS to address the HIGH levels of dioxin. This does NOT come from tobacco (or any plant) but from chlorine-bleached cig paper, about a third of the hundreds of Still Legal tobacco pesticides and from any number of the listed and still Top Secret additives. It's also in the Industrial Waste Cellulose used to make fake tobacco. It is a KNOWN carcinogen, the worst classification, in the US and elsewhere. It is so bad it is slated for a GLOBAL BAN via a treaty that even the US signed recently. It is STILL LEGAL in cigarettes and NO WARNINGS or ingredient info required on packages! Dioxin is known to cause health effects EXACTLY like those said, without analysis, to be from "tobacco" though some of those diseases are not possible to be caused by ANY natural plant, even tobacco and even incinerated.
3) Although the MANY sweet and flavorful (and untested) additives work to attract kids to what would be a less sweet and flavorful habit, although EACH additive increases withdrawal symptoms (addiction) and although chlorine contamination of the ingredients is particularly harmful to growing kids...it's ALL still legal as pie. It's even still legal to add numbing substances, like menthol, to short circuit one's natural defenses to irritation! This "truth" group, along with the cigarette industry and the oddly uninterested (or blind?) gov't regulators, declines to warn or protect kids from any of this. Not a word of complaint or questioning either.
4) There is STILL federal law on the books, despite the "smoking" emergency etc, that FORBIDS revealing the hundreds of still Top Secret ingredients! The 599 ones are just the ones the industry revealed itself to show "openness". They are pretty much all described as simple natural food products like in your grandmother's kitchen. Hardly. Not unless your grandmother is named Dow or Monsanto or ADM.
5) Ads, according to description offered, make no distinction between ADDED non-tobacco elements and whatever natural elements there may be in tobacco or tobacco smoke. Any kind of smoke may present some risk but...info on risks of plain tobacco smoke, incredibly, has never, apparently, been presented in courts or to legislatures.
6) "truth" group is from another group (Am. Legacy Foundation) that was developed out of the big "settlements". What these fraudulent "settlements" do is to take money from the uninformed, unprotected and insufficiently-warned victims (in price hikes etc) to pass it to the cig manufacturers who pass it to the states who, in turn, hand it to OTHER parts of the cig cartel! These include insurers who have huge investments (i.e. they're part owners) in cig manufacturing, food corporations that may be PART of a cig corporation or which are additives suppliers, pharmaceutical firms that may be tobacco pesticide manufacturers AND additives' suppliers, and advertising firms that for decades deceived about the nature of the products.
7) One ad mentions cyanide in cigarettes...same as in rat poison. It doesn't mention that 450 pesticides, INCLUDING RODENTICIDES, are still legal on U.S. tobacco...as if there was no well-known health problem going on. (See http://www.panna.org Pesticide Action Network.) Not enough time in a 30 second ad to say everything, apparently.
Bottom line: Those non-tobacco ingredients didn't just grow there accidentally. They aren't kept secret accidentally either. It's all permitted and even facilitated and hidden by regulators who have all sorts of economic links to not just cigarette makers but the ingredients suppliers and all of their investors and insurers...and related interests who do NOT care to have chlorine and radiation become known as parts of the cigarette gang. (Rads from STILL LEGAL radiation-contaminated phosphate tobacco fertilizers. Though low-level, still cell damaging.)
The war on tobacco (instead of war on putting deadly industrial stuff into consumer products) is as fraudulent as the war on pot, the war on Afghanistan or the war on terrorism. Coincidentally, all these "wars" happen to greatly serve none other than big oil and big petrochemicals, yet each "war" is packaged as if they're for "our protection". Protecting anyone from industrial pollutants, toxic chemicals, insufficiently-labeled products, industrial poisons in products, environmental devastation, corrupted regulators and corporate liability-dodging is not on the agenda.
See http://www.safetyalerts.com/t/g/truthcamp.htm for descriptions of two "anti-smoking" ads that are scheduled to be aired during the Super Bowl. They are from an organization called "truth"...though it's a mystery where they came up with that name.
The ads are intended to convince kids not to smoke but, by many questionable words and points, they ought be no more convincing than "Reefer Madness" warnings about the evils of marijuana. If this "anti- smoking" crusade can't be accurate and truthful, the crusade is proven to be a charade that, by pretending to oppose the cigarette industry, HELPS it and its ingredient suppliers and insurers and investors escape massive liabilities and PR disasters. It certainly ignores the Public Officials who allowed, and continued to allow, the incredible contamination of smoking products...products that are not even necessarily all or part tobacco ! (see US Patents). The lie of calling this stuff "tobacco", without heavy qualification, is just the start.
Some points re/ the scheduled ads:
1) The semi-famous "599 ingredients" are NOT "harmful chemicals in cigarette smoke" but are PART of the long list of UNTESTED, often-toxic and carcinogenic things ADDED to cigarettes...not all in any one cig, of course. Liquorice, for just one, is safe to eat but is damn harmful to smoke. It's still legal. Even anti-cig legislators let it stay! The ads seem to be specifically aimed at confusing the revealed 599 ADDITIVES with "599 substances in cigarette smoke". Hell...there's "599 substances" in probably ANY smoke. Additives' suppliers, and incompetent and corrupt regulators, are off the hook. Natural unpatentable public domain plant to take the fall.
2) If one wants to talk about harmful elements in the smoke, one NEEDS to address the HIGH levels of dioxin. This does NOT come from tobacco (or any plant) but from chlorine-bleached cig paper, about a third of the hundreds of Still Legal tobacco pesticides and from any number of the listed and still Top Secret additives. It's also in the Industrial Waste Cellulose used to make fake tobacco. It is a KNOWN carcinogen, the worst classification, in the US and elsewhere. It is so bad it is slated for a GLOBAL BAN via a treaty that even the US signed recently. It is STILL LEGAL in cigarettes and NO WARNINGS or ingredient info required on packages! Dioxin is known to cause health effects EXACTLY like those said, without analysis, to be from "tobacco" though some of those diseases are not possible to be caused by ANY natural plant, even tobacco and even incinerated.
3) Although the MANY sweet and flavorful (and untested) additives work to attract kids to what would be a less sweet and flavorful habit, although EACH additive increases withdrawal symptoms (addiction) and although chlorine contamination of the ingredients is particularly harmful to growing kids...it's ALL still legal as pie. It's even still legal to add numbing substances, like menthol, to short circuit one's natural defenses to irritation! This "truth" group, along with the cigarette industry and the oddly uninterested (or blind?) gov't regulators, declines to warn or protect kids from any of this. Not a word of complaint or questioning either.
4) There is STILL federal law on the books, despite the "smoking" emergency etc, that FORBIDS revealing the hundreds of still Top Secret ingredients! The 599 ones are just the ones the industry revealed itself to show "openness". They are pretty much all described as simple natural food products like in your grandmother's kitchen. Hardly. Not unless your grandmother is named Dow or Monsanto or ADM.
5) Ads, according to description offered, make no distinction between ADDED non-tobacco elements and whatever natural elements there may be in tobacco or tobacco smoke. Any kind of smoke may present some risk but...info on risks of plain tobacco smoke, incredibly, has never, apparently, been presented in courts or to legislatures.
6) "truth" group is from another group (Am. Legacy Foundation) that was developed out of the big "settlements". What these fraudulent "settlements" do is to take money from the uninformed, unprotected and insufficiently-warned victims (in price hikes etc) to pass it to the cig manufacturers who pass it to the states who, in turn, hand it to OTHER parts of the cig cartel! These include insurers who have huge investments (i.e. they're part owners) in cig manufacturing, food corporations that may be PART of a cig corporation or which are additives suppliers, pharmaceutical firms that may be tobacco pesticide manufacturers AND additives' suppliers, and advertising firms that for decades deceived about the nature of the products.
7) One ad mentions cyanide in cigarettes...same as in rat poison. It doesn't mention that 450 pesticides, INCLUDING RODENTICIDES, are still legal on U.S. tobacco...as if there was no well-known health problem going on. (See http://www.panna.org Pesticide Action Network.) Not enough time in a 30 second ad to say everything, apparently.
Bottom line: Those non-tobacco ingredients didn't just grow there accidentally. They aren't kept secret accidentally either. It's all permitted and even facilitated and hidden by regulators who have all sorts of economic links to not just cigarette makers but the ingredients suppliers and all of their investors and insurers...and related interests who do NOT care to have chlorine and radiation become known as parts of the cigarette gang. (Rads from STILL LEGAL radiation-contaminated phosphate tobacco fertilizers. Though low-level, still cell damaging.)
The war on tobacco (instead of war on putting deadly industrial stuff into consumer products) is as fraudulent as the war on pot, the war on Afghanistan or the war on terrorism. Coincidentally, all these "wars" happen to greatly serve none other than big oil and big petrochemicals, yet each "war" is packaged as if they're for "our protection". Protecting anyone from industrial pollutants, toxic chemicals, insufficiently-labeled products, industrial poisons in products, environmental devastation, corrupted regulators and corporate liability-dodging is not on the agenda.
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I didn't watch the game, but would like to see the gov't ads that ran ...anybody know if its available as a video file on the 'net somewhere yet?