This law seems pretty clear and straightforward to me. How about you?
907(a)(1)(B) of Section 907 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act:
“(B) ADDITIONAL SPECIAL RULE.—Beginning 2 years after the date of enactment of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, a tobacco product manufacturer shall not use tobacco, including foreign grown tobacco, that contains a pesticide chemical residue that is at a level greater than is specified by any tolerance applicable under Federal law to domestically grown tobacco”
So the tolerance would be zero for DDT, which is banned worldwide, and tobacco products contaminated with that DDT would definitely be in violation of Section 907, because there can’t be any DDT residue at all on US-grown tobacco. There is no tolerance. DDT is totally illegal in the US and in most countries worldwide – except a few like India and Brazil where – surprise – US manufacturers source their cheapest tobacco. That’s where the pesticide chemicals you see in the data below come from, and they are being inhaled by smokers in the US and worldwide every day. Nobody is the least bit aware of this because there has not been a single study for 50 years of off-the-shelf tobacco products to see what pesticide residues smokers are actually inhaling. Until I did this study.
So, no US manufacturer can use foreign-grown tobacco contaminated with DDT, or any of the other pesticide residues you see here like Carbendazim – which is totally banned in the EU. Seems pretty clear – right?
So let’s ask why FDA and all those other complicit Federal agencies allow this illegal and beyond-dangerous exposure to continue, as it has for generations of illness and death, without a single move to intervene? Let’s ask how the Tobacco Cartel and Federal agencies have managed to conspire to get around every law, not just this simple but groundbreaking (if ever applied) Section 907, and how that conspiracy dramatically and tragically impacts the lives of young men and women who are most at risk and most vulnerable to this particular kind of chemical exposure by withholding information that could change their decisions, behavior and life choices.
There can be no doubt that FDA knows that these cancer-causing, fetus-destroying pesticide residues that are known to cause diabetes and inflammatory obesity are totally concealed and unregulated in tobacco products like those you see below, so I’ll ask you to think about why the FDA, CDC, EPA, FTC and every other government agency supposedly committed to public health all refuse to regulate these Tobacco product Xenobiotics – substances hostile to life itself. These xenobiotic substances.
7% of pregnant women who smoke do so throughout their pregnancy, and that amounts to about 250,000 babies a year who are exposed continually before they are born to DDT and the other pesticides you see here. Here’s a look at what that is doing to them.
“Pesticide Exposure in Children“
https://doi.org/10.1542%2Fpeds.2012-2758
“Evidence is increasingly emerging about chronic health implications from both acute and chronic exposure. A growing body of epidemiological evidence demonstrates associations between parental use of pesticides, particularly insecticides, with acute lymphocytic leukemia and brain tumors. Prenatal, household, and occupational exposures (maternal and paternal) appear to be the largest risks.”
“Prospective cohort studies link early-life exposure to organophosphates and organochlorine pesticides (primarily DDT) with adverse effects on neurodevelopment and behavior. Among the findings associated with increased pesticide levels are poorer mental development by using the Bayley index and increased scores on measures assessing pervasive developmental disorder, inattention, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Related animal toxicology studies provide supportive biological plausibility for these findings.”
“Additional data suggest that there may also be an association between parental pesticide use and adverse birth outcomes including physical birth defects, low birth weight, and fetal death, although the data are less robust than for cancer and neurodevelopmental effects.”
“Children’s exposures to pesticides should be limited as much as possible.”
“Epigenetic Inheritance: Intergenerational Effects of Pesticides and Other Endocrine Disruptors on Cancer Development”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9102839/
“Studies in both animal models and human cohorts have linked exposure to pesticides and other environmental toxicants to defects in the parental germline.”
“For instance, in utero exposure to DDE, a DDT metabolite, impairs male fertility and causes epigenetic alterations in the male germline in rats. Other pesticides have similar effects: prenatal dioxin induces sperm epimutations and disease in subsequent generations.”
“Studies in human cohorts support the findings in animal models and report an association between pesticide exposure, including DDT, and sperm quality.”
“The female germline and reproductive health have also been shown to be sensitive to the endocrine disrupting action of pesticides, with long-term adverse effects to offspring.”
“In Utero human life is known to be vulnerable to pesticides in unique ways that require unique forms of protection.”
“DDT exposure during pregnancy and DNA methylation alterations in female offspring in the Child Health and Development Study”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6710160/
“In summary:
- “Prenatal DDTs exposure is associated with DNA methylation in key genes that are potentially important to breast cancer.”
- “Differentially methylated regions (DMRs) in CCDC85A, CYP1A1 and ZFPM2 are associated with markers of DDT.”
- “Higher methylation in genes that are involved in growth and development and breast cancer susceptibility are associated with higher in utero DDT exposure.”
- “Prenatal DDT exposure may have life-long consequence through alteration in genes relevant to breast cancer.”
“Effects of exposure to pesticides during pregnancy on placental maturity and weight of newborns”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19744971/
“It is known that pesticides cross the placental barrier and can cause alterations in the development of placental structures resulting in adverse effects in reproduction.”
“In utero exposure to DDT at critical moments in development is known or strongly suspected to cause serious childhood diseases and disabilities including diabetes, asthma, autism, obesity, birth defects, and cancers including breast cancer and ALL.”
“Prenatal p,p´-DDE exposure and neurodevelopment among children 3.5-5 years of age”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3569679/
“Our findings support the hypothesis that DDE prenatal exposure is negatively associated with child neurodevelopment at 3.5–5 years of age. Additional follow up is needed to determine if GCI, quantitative, verbal, and memory associations with prenatal DDE exposure is a key determinant of poor further academic performance, considering that DDT is still being used in some countries.”
“Consequences of DDT Exposure Could Last Generations”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/consequences-of-ddt-exposure-could-last-generations/
“Using more than 200 mother-daughter-granddaughter triads, Cohn’s team found that the granddaughters of those in the top third of DDT exposure during pregnancy had 2.6 times the odds of developing an unhealthy BMI. They were also more than twice as likely to have started their periods before age 11. Both factors, Cohn says, are known to raise the risk of later developing breast cancer and cardiovascular disease. These results, published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, and Prevention, mark the first human evidence that DDT’s health threats span three generations.”
“Neurobehavioural effects of developmental toxicity”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24556010/
“The developing human brain is uniquely vulnerable to toxic chemical exposures, and major windows of developmental vulnerability occur in utero and during infancy and early childhood. During these sensitive life stages, chemicals can cause permanent brain injury at low levels of exposure that would have little or no adverse effect in an adult.”
Let’s ask who’s smoking those Swisher Sweets, in particular? These little cigars are heavily targeted to marginalized, poorly educated, easily manipulated young Black and Latino women and men. Why do you suppose that diabetes, obesity and hypertension are so high among young Black women in particular – the heaviest smoking demographic of Swisher Sweets and the other cheap fruity smokes? Could it be the tobacco in those Swisher Sweets making them obese and diabetic with failing hearts and depression?
Neighborhood Disparities in the Availability, Advertising, Promotion, and Youth Appeal of Little Cigars and Cigarillos, United States, 2015
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7733061/
“Nearly 90% of retailers sold LCCs, 83.0% sold flavored LCCs, and 30.9% had youth marketing. Controlling for retailer type and other neighborhood characteristics, neighborhoods with the highest proportion of black residents had significantly higher odds of flavored LCC availability (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 2.24, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.52, 3.30); exterior advertisements (AOR = 2.84, 95% CI = 1.94, 4.16); price promotions (AOR = 1.62; 95% CI = 1.07–2.45), and youth appeal (AOR = 1.49, 95% CI 1.08–2.08) compared to the lowest. Disparities in flavored LCC availability, exterior advertising, and youth appeal were also present for lower income neighborhoods.”
“The Impact of Influencers on Cigar Promotions: A Content Analysis of Large Cigar and Swisher Sweets Videos on TikTok”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9222503/
“…Swisher Sweets videos were also more likely to feature females, Black individuals, and younger individuals.”
Prevalence of current large cigar versus little cigar/cigarillo smoking among U.S. adults, 2018–2019
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8683982/
“Prevalence of currently smoking LCCs varied greatly by age and race/ethnicity, with the highest prevalence of current LCC smoking being among 18–30-year-old non-Hispanic Black adults. Cigar smoking prevention and cessation efforts should prioritize non-Hispanic Black young adults who are most at risk for cigar smoking health effects.”
The fact is that we don’t know anything at all about smoking tobacco because pure tobacco has never been used in researching “tobacco’s” health effects – it’s always been “research” cigarettes and they have all been contaminated with pesticides like what you see here, so of course the results have showed that “smoking” is dangerous. But smoking tobacco? Never been tested. In other words, the only cigarettes in the data table above with zero pesticide contamination is American Spirit Organic, and there has never been a side-by-side comparison of the health effects of inhaling tobacco smoke with and without pesticides. So maybe it is the tobacco causing all this tragedy and death, but maybe not, but we just don’t know, and that’s not an accidental oversight.
But here’s the question that has never once been asked, at least publicly, by any agency or any of the “non-profit” anti-smoking vigilantes – could it actually be the pesticides and not the tobacco causing “smoking-related disease”? We know for a fact that chronic exposure to every one of the pesticides I found in my “Smoke No Evil” tests causes ‘smoking-related’ diseases. Search “exposure” along with the name of any of the pesticides in that table above plus any keyword like diabetes, obesity or hypertension and you’ll see what I mean. For example, search (exposure DDT obesity) or (exposure cypermethrin diabetes). Searching almost any combination of pesticide exposure and any of the diseases rampant in Black, Latino, Native American and API communities will give you similar results. Since all this research isn’t exactly hidden from view it can’t be news to section 907 regulators – right?
As an example of everything that is being hidden and ignored by the regulators, here’s a very recent ground-breaking study that happens to be the first study since 1950 – think about that – studying the link between smoking tobacco products and the blood serum levels of DDT in Black women smokers. I’ll share links to extensive science showing why daily, deep DDT exposure matters below.
“Correlates of organochlorine pesticide plasma concentrations among reproductive-aged black women“
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32182481/
Environmental Research
Volume 184, May 2020
“… prospective cohort study of Black women aged 23–35 years from the Detroit, Michigan metropolitan area (enrolled 2010–2012), examined correlates of plasma concentrations of the following OCPs: dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (p,pʹ-DDE), hexachlorobenzene (HCB), oxychlordane, and trans-nonachlor.”
“Current smoking was associated with 10–19% higher plasma concentrations of all four OCPs, and was highest for current smokers of ≥10 cigarettes/day (% differences ranged from 22 to 29%).”
Young Black women smokers are dead-center in the target market for the DDT-contaminated Swisher Sweets you see in the data above. Could the DDT in their favorite smoke have anything at all to do with their health issues? Could the DDT in their mother’s or father’s cigarettes have anything to do with their health issues? If it does we’ll never hear it from the FDA, EPA or any other Federal or State agency.
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In case this situation has your attention you may be interested in looking into the science further further. Here are some of my recent posts linking to published journal research on exposure to these pesticides individually and as the pesticide “cocktail” we found in every brand we tested. In these posts there’s a strong emphasis on the DDT in Swisher Sweets and quite likely in many other brands when full testing can be accomplished. This emphasis points to a public health crisis that is irretrievably damaging the health and vitality of generations of young Black, Latinx, Native American and Asian-Pacific Islander American women and men – and the entire world of smokers beyond America where 7 million people are dying every year from inhaling pesticides while engaged in what they have been deceived into thinking is “smoking Tobacco”.
This post offers hard evidence and historic documentation of the conspiratorial role of Federal agencies in concealing the health threat to smokers created by unregulated pesticide exposure
This post documents why the US Surgeon General’s cigarette pack “warnings’ never mention tobacco
This post offers a look at the historical origins of today’s breast cancer, diabetes and obesity epidemics in the trans-generational impact of DDT and Organochlorine pesticide contaminants in cigarettes 1950-1972, and the current state of DDT in tobacco products in 2021
This post links new hard data on pesticide contaminants in cigarettes with the elevated health risks this creates for Diabetic smokers, and the simple strategy that individual smokers can use to eliminate the threat.
A radical “quit smoking” plan that will probably offend a lot of non-smokers but that could help a lot of Diabetic smokers quit hurting themselves without having to quit.
7 Million Smokers Dead Every Year; 50 Million Sickened and Crippled – how much of this is preventable?
This post links hard data on DDT in Swisher Sweets brand of little cigars, smoked by millions of young women, with peer-reviewed published research on pre-natal genetic damage to the baby
This post links hard data on hidden fungicides in tobacco brands popular in marginalized communities with peer-reviewed published research that demonstrates that exposure to these same fungicides is strongly associated with testicular cancer
Any exposure to several of the pesticides shown to contaminate tobacco products are proven to have greater impact on babies with Latinx, African American, American Indian and Pacific Island genetics.
Could the unexplained link between smoking and suicide be explained by the known link between pesticide exposure and suicide, once you become aware of the concealed pesticide contamination in cigarettes?
There’s nothing spontaneous if a young smoker loses her baby because the insecticides and fungicides in her cigarettes have interrupted fetal development creating ‘non-viable offspring’ doing to her what they are designed to do to bugs.
https://panaceachronicles.com/2020/12/14/500000-spontaneous-abortions-preventable-genocide/
When a pregnant woman is exposed to DDT during a critical time window in her female baby’s development that female baby will have 4X greater risk of developing breast cancer if she is Black or Brown-skinned.
Once you know about the hidden pesticides communities can use existing toxic substances laws to ban the most dangerous brands and force compliance by the rest.
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