Roswell Park Cancer Institute, U.S. researchers analyzed 13 cigarette brands made in China. Most of them reached two to three times the amount of heavy metals than cigarettes made in Canada. It contained arsenic, cadmium and lead which adverse effects on human body.

This result presented in the U.S. health policy journal “Tobacco Control”, there is no doubt it is a bad news for tobacco industry in China. More than 2 trillion cigarettes are produced annual, and there are 350 million people smokers. 1.1 million deaths per year caused by smoke, secondhand smoke and sick smokers.

This information leads to shock of melamine contamination milk scandal in China 2008, except the heavy metal is not added artificially this time, in contains in the Chinese soil they use. Not only cigarettes, but other vegetables also suck up heavy metal from soil, which are determined as “toxins”. The use of fertilizers is one of the causes of heavy metal contamination in soil. Even with an organic fertilizer, there is no way to escape the heavy metal pollution. Some farmers feed “drug added arsenic” to chickens and pigs to anti-parasite or to increase the lean meat.

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