American Tobacco companies added arsenic to intensify the addition to nicotine way beyond trace amounts. I was not talking about the common trace elements. Any way not a subject for here it was just passing comment to note natural foods are much better for us. God Bless John Willis -----Original Message----- From: Paleolithic Eating Support List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of william Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2011 05:44 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: New On 05/15/2011 05:20 PM, John Willis wrote: > The number one big lie in world was "these Cigarettes will not hurt you" > right after they laced them with arsenic. "Just about every food we have contains arsenic. Like a large number of other chemical elements in the soil, it is taken up by plants and as a result it is present in tobacco leaves. You will get traces of arsenic as you will other metals, such as copper and lead. But the levels are so unbelieveably low that the chances of them having an effect on a human is stretching the imagination. To kill somebody with arsenic you have to give them a lot for a very long time and this isn't a lot of arsenic, these are traces". http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/sci_tech/features/health/tobaccotrial/inac igarette.htm William