The smoking gun - passive smoke hazards - includes related articles on cigarette advertising, on exporting cigarettes, and on environmental tobacco smoke - Cover Story

E: The Environmental Magazine, Oct, 1994 by Alice Horrigan

> The curious list includes food items such as chocolate, wine and coconut oil. It also includes an insecticide--methoprene--sprayed onto tobacco leaves to fight beetles, as well as ammonia and ethyl furoate, which may be linked to liver damage in animals. Some debate has erupted over whether the chemicals have been approved for use in or on food, but s an FDA official pointed out, such approval hardly suggests they are safe to smoke.

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