>using tobacco smoke as a "smokescreen" for asbestos and butane, among >other -industrial- carginogens). > I read in THE SUGAR BLUES that it is actually the sugar that is toxic. The book cites studies of people who smoke naturally cured/dried tobacco, and those who smoked machine dried/sugared tobacco. Those who smoked the machine dried got much sicker, I can't remember how much the naturally dried tobacco was harmful, but the great majority of the damage was coming from the SUGAR in the cigarettes. Now, when do you hear the media wailing about the harmful effects of sugar? Not very often. Is tobacco actually a "sugarscreen?"..... A paleo person if he had any tobacco at all would have smoked it naturally dried of course.