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Has the cause for Tobacco related Lung Cancer been found? Can it now be cured? Can 150,000 lives be saved each year?

By Anonymous

AMERICAN COMPUTER SCIENTISTS ASSOCIATION INC.
(http://www.acsa.net) issues an Emergency
Infectious Disease Alert
February 3, 2002

Re: PREVENTING A "SMOKERS' HOLOCAUST"...

     A verifiable way has been found to prevent the majority of all Lung Cancer caused by Cigarette Smoking...

     Something so SIMPLE that it is shocking it hasn't already been done...

NOTE: Please disseminate to all appropriate Government Agencies, Members of the Public, ALL PRESS, and to your Colleagues


To Whom It May Concern:

     I am the Scientific Chair of the American Computer Science Association's research network, and am hoping that as a member of the Public, Press, Government or a Doctor or Scientist, you will neither be offended, nor react adversely to my reaching out to each and all you.

     What value has one human life? What value 150,000 American Human Lives nearing their death of Lung Cancer over the next 12 months? If there were something simple that could be done, to over a course of decades, annually reduce that 180,000 until it is less than 20,000, cases which once they are differentiated from the balance, become hard targets for your research? An unbelievalbe concept? Would you think I'd write you on anything less important?

     For when it comes to a possible preventative cure, a simple change to the way Tobacco is grown, the answer is manifest:

     There is something that can be done to save the 160,000 lives needlessly lost every year. It won't have immediate effect, but it will progressively eliminate a fraction of the 160,000 Lung Cancer cases caused by Smoking from each year's statistical toll. That much is certain.

     The assumption is that 160,000 of those cases derive from smoking cigarettes in a lifelong abuse of the linings of the Lungs. This is not about making a "safer, cleaner cigarette", for there is no such thing. Undoubtedly, some percentage of those spared Lung Cancer will go on to die of Heart Disease, or Stroke. But, since 1963, a hidden cause that is known to cause Lung Cancer has gone unpunished. To eliminate it might eliminate 98 percent of the Lung Cancers from long term smoking of Cigarettes. Here's hoping that Lung Cancer is not so big a business that it can't be, at last, halted at it's source!

     I am issuing this Alert to you on what is a very difficult subject. There have been Tobacco Suits that have failed, some have settled. After looking at the research work being performed in the Cancer community and how so many of you Cancer Research Doctors' have such extraordinary commitment and demonstrate such bravery to help patients suffering from terminal Lung Cancer, I thought you'd find this amazingly simple discovery something within your heart and that of every other Doctor, to do something about. Particularly when the doing is so simple.

     Would you be inclined to believe that it might take something as simple as a law requiring Tobacco Growers to clean up their land and then fertlize with a different kind of fertilizer to eliminate most Lung Cancer from Cigarettes? This NUMBER ONE Killer of Americans, can be reduced drastically, if we can convince the Growers to STOP USING CALCIUM PHOSPHATE BASED FERTILIZER, which introduces substantial quantities of the radio isotope Polonium 210 into Tobacco, which tend to absorb it. (Note: our other food and water are ALSO at risk from the very same Calcium Phosphate Fertilizers, CPFs, which have an abundance of extremely poisonous and radioactive Polonium isotopes that it can put into our food and water, too! We may be looking at our "meteor" here, you know, the one that "got" the Dinosaurs? This may be ours, if we aren't careful... Remember, the Romans? Lead lining their Aquaducts and they all went mad? Well this could be it for us, humanity, in America, and everywhere, if we don't act quickly. Generational Genetic Damage from constant Radiation exposure, damage to the very code we are made of, is being passed down by Smokers to their children. Who knows what the consequences of that are?)

     Smokers breath the Polonium 210 into their lungs at an annual rate equal to between 300 and 8000 Chest X-Rays, when translated into equal exposure rates to radiation! Can you and I sit idle with this horrible Smokers' Holocaust happening all around us? NO WONDER their Lungs turn into massive Tumor Farms, killing our best, brightest and most honored. I remember watching John Wayne as he progressively grew ill, weakened and died. All from Lung Cancer. An example of losses of human life that continue at the rate of 180,000 people annually!

     Here are some of the details and verifying studies that bring this shocking and staggering situation into full focus. I think after you and/or your key staff members read this, you will want to draft legislation outlawing any Polonium bearing fertilizers and other radio/isotopes and nitrosamines, from ever being used by Tobacco Growers again!!!

     You will find our shocking findings on cigarette related Lung Cancer and it's primary cause on our ACSA internet website (http://www.acsa.net) at the following URL:

http://www.acsa.net/HealthAlert/lungcancer.html .
     While we are computer scientists, it doesn't take much to get our other scientific disciplinary instincts up in arms about a situation that it seems could be remedied by the least of efforts by those who are causing it.

     There is no question that Tobacco Smokers are at the greatest risk when it comes to Lung Cancers after prolonged exposure during a lifetime of smoking.

     We at ACSA have independently researched the cause of the majority of such Cancers which unlike those who believe them the results of carcinogens, ozone and nitrosamines in Smoke, we have concluded quite differently, and have confirmed our findings and those of others with the Nuclear Regulatory Agency, various Medical and University experts, and various organizations who are involved in the study of the problem. We have also confirmed that the Cigarette Manufacturers, on the whole, appear to be largely familiar with and seem to concur as to the cause of the majority of Lung Cancers privately, if not publicly, in the opinion of those who've researched and studied the situation in greater depth than we have.

     The vast, vast overwhelming majority of mutation and resulting tumor in the Lungs of Tobacco Smokers (and passive smokers) results, it appears, in part from Radon Gas and, far more so, from Polonium 210 found in minute quantities in modern commercial Tobacco, deposited directly into Lung, Mouth, Brachial and Bronchial tissue by smoking that Tobacco. That Polonium 210 has been inclining during the past 50 years, resulting from the adoption of Calcium Phosphate Fertilizer by the Tobacco Grower's Industry and the natural effects of greater radioactivity and Radon release on the surface of our planet.

     We do not think that the Tobacco Growers are aware that using Ammonium Phosphate fertilizer could greatly reduce the volume of Polonium 210 found in the Tobacco, reducing it down to negligible levels. Nor are we of the opinion that the vast majority of the Medical Profession and the vast majority of the Legislators and Department of Justice, realize the significance. As scientists, I am certain you are all familiar with the so-called "overlooked answer hidden in plain sight, the last place we might, as researchers, bother to look" phenomenon?

     P-210 is a highly bioactive element, related to Bismuth's and Lead's atomic structures (in fact, Bismuth 210 decays into Polonium 210 which decays into Lead during it's respective half lives). Polonium 210 has the unfortunate propensity to dispense its entire minute radiogenic emissions, in the case of the Smoker, into the living tissue which it coats when deposited in the Lungs during and after smokers inhale it's smoke. Derived from calcium phosphate fertilizers, which integrate Polonium 210 and partly decayed Bismuth 210 into tobacco, then used in modern commercial cigarettes, the Polonium 210 is a very effective means for irradiating Lung Tissue at constant and relatively low levels, which if only took place once or twice, would probably be harmless. But, particularly when Radon gas is also present, Cigarette Smoke appears to take on the long term equivalent of 300 to 8000 "equivalent Chest X-Ray sized doses" of radiation directly deposited into the Lung tissue as the Polonium 210 coats the airways in the Lungs and then accumulates in varying amounts on and in those tissues, eventually converting them to tumors through a process derived from exposure to direct Radioactive Poisoning.

     Furthermore, the P-210 decays over several half lives into Lead, which is ultimately plated into the microfilaments of the Lungs and progressively serves to also severely damage the tissue, before being removed by the attempt by Lung tissue to cleanse itself, contributing Lead poisoning to the tissues of the body such as the Liver, the Spleen and the Kidneys. But long before it becomes Lead, its entire Nuclear force is largely absorbed by the tissues at the most sensitive layers of the Lungs, and you very likely can map the consequences found commonly in Smokers to those tissues most at risk to being plated by the Polonium 210 and least capable of purging that contaminant.

     Each year, a smoker will receive the equivalent of between 300 and 8000 "chest x-rays" worth of radio-activity. As an expert, I am certain that you know what the steady, continuous delivery of radiation will do, despite the body's best efforts to cleans its Lung tissue, over 20 or 30 years.

     Even in the early years, pre-cancer conditions will commence in a Smoker's lungs undetectably, at the nuclear level of the sub-atomic and atomic structure of the elements composing their Lung Tissue and then, progressively, to the point where it expands to the fundamental Biological structure of the Tissues, and then to the point where Nucleus Genetic Mutation finds itself in the Nuclear Laboratory afforded it by the accumulation of Radioactivity from the constant film of Polonium 210 constantly irradiating those Lung tissues.

     The process may take a long time, but Cancer from it is not just happening overnight as the result of some kind of systemic event. It is a prolonged disease.

     We are seeking to have this Radiogenic BioDegeneration of the Lung Tissue progressively from exposure to radioactive Polonium 210 found in Cigarette Smoke, labeled a treatable disease by the AMA, since it is precursor, clearly, to common small and non-small Lung Cancer associated with Smoking.

     And, we'd like to arrange for appropriate granting to study to

     a) Treat the current crop of degenerating Lung Tissue among smokers of 5 to 65 years duration of smoking

     b) Treat the cigarettes of the Tobacco Companies who refuse to switch to tobacco grown in ammonium phosphate or Organic fertilizer, in some way, to protect smokers from being irradiated

     c) Convince our lawmakers to pass a law providing either incentives or mandate for all Tobacco Growers to monitor the amount of Polonium and Radon derivatives, apatates and other such substances in their fertilizer, and use ammonium phosphate and other techniques for eliminating it down to a safe level (which may require it to be eliminated in entirety)

     d) Provide financial support for persons suffering from Lung Tissue damage and Cancer associated with Smoking that has its roots in the Polonium 210 and Radon derivatives issue, provided by the Tobacco Industry as a whole.

     We have found most of the research community and the tobacco industry to be, surprisingly, both cold shouldered and condescending as to the enormity of this research and it's consequences. Of every 1/2 million or so who die of Smoking related cancer, if this Polonium 210 turns out to be the primary cause, and the 90% figure turns out to be verifiable, then sometime in the future, an effective program for eliminating Polonium 210 and Radon derivatives from Cigarettes, could yield as many as 450,000 lives saved during such period (one year, perhaps?) once the effect of removing Polonium 210 from Cigarette Tobacco takes root among the smoking population. And it could be far more in our World. Smoking is on the rise in China and elsewhere. And every where it spreads, radiogenic poisening of the linings and walls of the Lungs is taking more and more lives. The figure each year, globally, is staggering.

     That STAGGERING FIGURE is so pressing, that any reaction other than "let's do this thing!" from anyone would have to be undeniably a sign of insanity or incomprehensible irresponsibility. Aside from minor changes in the growing of tobacco and, where appropriate, adoption of disciplines designed in the 70's by the Tobacco Industry itself, as a contingency, to also remove any remaining Radioactive agents from Tobacco during the processing (but which can not remove the majority of Polonium introduced by calcium phosphate fertilizer, it has to be replaced with non-Polonium introducing fertilizer) so that the Public's Health is ultimately protected.

     Meanwhile, the association is acting within its charter as a public charity and private research foundation, exploring those resources available to help prevent the annual tragedy of death among active smokers and their passively smoking immediate family and/or co-workers.

     I would ask you if you feel you can play any role in assisting the Association with the overwhelming task ahead of us. I have a feeling that given all the controversy surrounding the many Lawsuits, that the Tobacco Industry is clearly not going to respond well to our initiative, nor our vision of how to solve this unfortunate and tragic problem, nor where the blame would fall (we could care less, we just want to save lives!)

     But when it comes to saving 450,000 lives globally each year (to the extent that eliminating Polonium 210 from tobacco), to that extent we believe that the benefits far outweigh the risk of having friction from the Tobacco Companies. And, as you know, far more than just 450,000 lives are at stake, globally, over the next 100 years we're talking as many as 50 million lives, or slightly less than 1/5th the number of people living in the United States. The figure is so staggering that is seems to make AIDS look like a walk in the park by comparison.

     In fact, what we are looking at here, is finding those things we can all do to try and prevent what can only be called a Smoker's Holocaust, a Holocaust of needless Lung Cancers, which combined with your own work in treating those who ultimately get Lung Cancer from the carcinogenics and other causes in life, smoking and the environment, could reduce death from Lung Cancer to an almost non-existent level.

     In fact, most of the benefit would go to the Tobacco Companies, they would have a product that they could claim was "a whole lot safer", we needn't embarrass them (unless, of course, they refuse to remove the offending toxic agent), and since they would be drastically reducing their own product liability I frankly have a very hard time believing they could rationalize the continuance of Polonium 210's presence in their products, or react in an adverse and threatening fashion to so noble an effort.

     Thank you for any time or consideration you can give me on this.

     Please advise if you believe better publication of this topic will help and if we can be of assistance if you and/or your fellow citizens and colleagues decide its time to take a stand for the lives of all those suffering creatures who wander into our hospitals with Lungs no longer working, preparing to die of a horrible disease that only humanity could cause itself, one which would be easily preventable. This staggering issue must get the light of visibility that it deserves and the Tobacco Growers and Cigarette Companies must put an end to Polonium 210 based Tobacco, at once. For those who smoke, their grandchildren and their grandchildren's children want their grandparents to be around for when they grow up...

     If you and I sit idly by while this horrific situation continues, they simply won't be!

     Please obtain verification for this issue by examining our website and reviewing the facts, contact the NRC and experts on the cumulative affects of the specificic dosages of radiation from Polonium found in Cigarettes and then give this issue some light on your journal on the web. Doctors need to know, too! It's critical that the word get out, because while this infectious disease, Lung Cancer, is brought about by exposure to a toxic substance, radioactive Polonium 210 in long term dosages, Lung Cancer is an infectious disease nonetheless and we must not let our egos nor our arrogance turn us away from the effort to cleanse the product of something that may be causing the cumulative deaths of 180,000 Americans every single year!

     In the 15 minutes since you started reading this Press Release, 3 more Americans have died. By the end of the week, 500 will have died this week? By the end of the year, it would be as if 200 Jetliners knocked down 50 World Trade Centers and Pentagon wings, if we count the deaths needlessly inflicted. With every tick of the clock, more and more of our young people are irradiating their mouths, lungs, throats, and the rest of their bodies.

     Let's not join the overwhelming number of successful business people who simply don't care.

          Sincerely yours,

               Dr. Jack A. Shulman
               Chairman

The American Computer Scientists Association Inc.
6 Commerce Drive
Cranford, NJ 07016
908-931-1390
http://www.acsa.net


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Tips for smokers who resolve to quit in New Year

By Anonymous

ATLANTA, GA DECEMBER 29 2003--Of the estimated 50 million Americans who are still smokers, the majority—70 percent—want to quit.

Smoking cessation experts agree that year-end is a good time for smokers to stop. Noel Griese, author of the book “Avoiding Lung Cancer,” urges smokers to do just that. He recommends that smokers make a New Year's resolution right now to quit for good!

For those who successfully break the habit, benefits are immediate. Within hours, blood cells that were transporting carbon monoxide from tobacco smoke begin transporting healthy oxygen. After a year of remaining smoke-free, the smoker’s risk of heart attack drops by half. After five to ten years, risk of lung cancer drops dramatically.

While smokers who quit can pride themselves on regaining control of their health, a more important benefit is extended lifespan. Smoking has been shown on average to shorten the lives of males by 13.2 years and of females by 14.5 years. One of the cheapest ways to extend lives is by helping smokers to stop. “Studies show that even smokers over 70 who quit extend lifespan,” he notes.

"Smoking is an addiction that is extremely difficult to overcome,” Griese admits. “It takes only three cigarettes to get someone hooked, which helps explain why so many teenagers become addicted. It is now accepted that the addictive power of smoking is on a par with heroin or cocaine addiction. But while society recognizes that heroin and cocaine addicts and alcoholics need intensive treatment, the same is not true for those addicted to tobacco."

He says that for every 20 smokers who try to kick the habit on their own, only one is likely to be successful at quitting for good. He advises people who want to stop to never quit trying. “It may take three or more attempts before you break the habit for good," he cautions.

The odds of success can be considerably improved. "Several treatments at least double the success rate of smoking cessation," he emphasizes.

Griese says research shows the six FDA-approved medications designed to help smokers quit—nicotine patch, gum, nasal spray, inhaler and lozenge or bupropion (Zyban)—improve the odds of successfully quitting. Some of these are available over the counter. Others require a doctor’s prescription. "All of these products reduce unpleasant nicotine withdrawal symptoms, including cigarette cravings," he says.

Going to a smoking-cessation clinic for behavioral counseling has been shown to be as effective as using the various medications.

For the best chance of quitting, try a combination of counseling and medication, suggests Griese, who's a past state director of the American Cancer Society and American Lung Association.

He suggests that people who resolve to quit visit www.smokefree.gov for copies of "Forever Free" booklets. Free quit smoking programs are available from a number of groups. Some are available at www.cancer.org, www.lungusa.org or www.americanheart.org. Griese’s book, another aid, can be located at www.anvilpub.com or by putting the words “Avoiding Lung Cancer” into a Web search engine. The book is available at bookstores and on line.



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Jan. 11 Marks 40th Anniversary of Surgeon General’s Report Linking Smoking and Lung Cancer

By Anonymous

ATLANTA, GA January 13 2004--Forty years ago, on Jan. 11, 1964, a Saturday seven weeks after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, the surgeon general of the United States announced that smoking had been linked to lung cancer and other diseases.

Luther Terry issued that first surgeon general's report on smoking and health, which connected cigarette smoking with lung cancer, heart disease and emphysema. Back then, 43 percent of adult Americans smoked, annually consuming more than 4,000 cigarettes per person.

The tobacco industry immediately disputed the surgeon general’s 387-page report, citing findings by the Tobacco Institute, a now defunct organization that it had created. The Tobacco Institute pointed out that efforts to cause human-type lung cancer in animals through inhalation of tobacco smoke had consistently failed.

In 1965, the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act required that a warning message from the surgeon general be printed on cigarette packs for the first time. Six years later, in 1971, advertisements for cigarettes were banned from radio and television broadcasts.

In 1973, the government began requiring nonsmoking sections in airplanes. Airlines later banning smoking altogether on flights.

In 1988, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop concluded for the first time that nicotine was an addictive drug.

In 1994, executives of the seven largest U.S. tobacco companies swore in congressional testimony that nicotine was not addictive and denied manipulating nicotine levels in cigarettes. It was later discovered that tobacco companies had known about the dangers of smoking and the addictive nature of nicotine well before the surgeon general did. Six months before the original 1964 surgeon general’s report was issued, a Brown and Williamson executive had written, "We are, then, in the business of selling nicotine, an addictive drug."

In 1997, the tobacco industry made a landmark settlement with the U.S. government, promising to spend nearly $400 billion on anti-smoking campaigns over subsequent decades in exchange for federal protection from lawsuits.

The tobacco industry a year later, in 1998, entered into the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA). Through it, tobacco companies agreed to pay 46 states $206 billion over 25 years to help them recover tobacco-related health care costs. Four states settled their lawsuits separately for about $40 billion over 25 years.

Today, smoking among American adults has fallen to 23 percent of the adult population, about 50 million people. Most of those—70 percent, or 35 million—want to quit. Lung cancer death rates among men have been declining two percent per year since 1991 as more males quit. Many cities and counties now ban smoking in public places. Increased tobacco prices discourage consumption—it’s estimated that for every 10-cent increase in cigarette prices, there’s a four percent drop in consumption.

But the picture is far from perfect. While the rate of smoking has dropped by half from 1964, it is currently estimated to cost the United States economy about $75 billion in direct medical costs and $82 billion in lost productivity annually. Smoking remains the nation’s leading cause of preventable death. As many women as men now smoke. Tobacco companies still spend $11 billion annually to promote smoking, about 20 times as much as states spend to discourage smoking.

Further, most states are squandering their tobacco settlement money on just about everything but smoking prevention. Only four states—Maine, Delaware, Mississippi and Arkansas—fund tobacco control programs at the 25 percent of settlement money recommended by the Centers for Disease Control. And more than two million young people each year pick up their first cigarette, leading to more than 700,000 new regular smokers being hooked annually. Research indicates it takes only three cigarettes to become addicted to nicotine.

"In 1964, smoking was accepted and allowed almost everywhere including in workplaces, airplanes, restaurants, bars and movie theaters," says Noel Griese, author of “Avoiding Lung Cancer” and "Conquering Cancer: Progress in 2003."

"The surgeon general's report began to open America's eyes to the dangers of smoking," he said. "It was the start of a steady decrease in the number of Americans who smoke. However, we need to do a lot more. Lung cancer is still the leading cause of cancer deaths among men and women."

“The surgeon general's 1964 report on smoking and health for the first time demonstrated a clear link between tobacco use and cancer death,” says Griese, who is also the editor of “Lung Cancer Update” newsletter and a past state director of both the American Lung Association and American Cancer Society. “Numerous studies since have supported the causal connection, as well as the addictive nature of smoking,”

More than 440,000 Americans still die from smoking-related illnesses including lung cancer, heart disease and emphysema each year. "Much has changed since 1964, except the fact that smoking still kills," he said.




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