Cigarettes many contrain Pig's blood!
Another good reason not to smoke!!!!
Cigarettes may contain pigs blood
CIGARETTES may contain traces of pig's blood, an Australian academic says with a warning that religious groups could find its undisclosed presence "very offensive".
University of Sydney Professor Simon Chapman points to recent Dutch research which identified 185 different industrial uses of a pig - including the use of its haemoglobin in cigarette filters.
Prof Chapman said the research offered an insight into the otherwise secretive world of cigarette manufacture, and it was likely to raise concerns for devout Muslims and Jews.
Religious texts at the core of both of these faiths specifically ban the consumption of pork.
"I think that there would be some particularly devout groups who would find the idea that there were pig products in cigarettes to be very offensive," Prof Chapman said today.
"The Jewish community certainly takes these matters extremely seriously and the Islamic community certainly do as well, as would many vegetarians.
"It just puts into hard relief the problem that the tobacco industry is not required to declare the ingredients of cigarettes ... they say 'that's our business' and a trade secret."
The Dutch research found pig haemoglobin - a blood protein - was being used to make cigarette filters more effective at trapping harmful chemicals before they could enter a smoker's lungs.
Prof Chapman said while tobacco companies had moved voluntarily list the contents of their products on their websites, they also noted undisclosed "processing aids ... that are not significantly present in, and do not functionally affect, the finished product".
This catch-all term hid from public view an array of chemicals and other substances used in the making of tobacco products, he said.
At least one cigarette brand sold in Greece was confirmed as using pig haemoglobin in its processes, Prof Chapman said, and the status of smokes sold was unknown.
"If you're a smoker and you're of Islamic or Jewish faith then you'd probably would want to know and there is no way of finding out," Prof Chapman said.
The Sydney office of British American Tobacco Australia was contacted by AAP.
A spokeswoman said a comment would be provided although it was not immediately available.
Never thought about pig fart, those molecules must travel through people's bodies at least 100 times before they die.
what's next? pork as one of the ingredients in bread? pig fart in the air we breathe?
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body with my ciggies I smoke:-P
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nah, maybe it was the butter u spread on it;-P
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I had a bacon sandwhich last night and I am sure it had pig in it, could've been the bread I used thinking back....
Is there any government in the world that has outright banned the sale of cigarettes? The cigarette manufacturers lobby is way too big and strong for anything like that to ever happen. Money is more important than religion in the end.
God, ban on pork and next ban on cigs..... Now that will be a reason for me to leave lol
brain not functioning well.. hahahaha..
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you said its a "smoke"-free zone meaning I'm not welcome :P Ok stupid joke never mind.
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i didn't say smokers are not allowed inside.. but just leave ur cigarettes outside. :)
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Don't think it is true to be honest. You can't setup a manufacturing facility in India if you are putting pig's blood in them.
they will say the white paper is made out of pig skin
Visper are u saying i'm not invited to your home?
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I don't smoke and I'm not a Muslim, so doesn't effect me. I believe smoking is anti-Islamic anyway, as there is something about not being addicted to anything mentioned in the Quran.
i wish i am always at home coz it's a smoke-free zone area..
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Sorry deepb, lots of interesting news out there today.
literal people are scary, man, literal people scare me
out there trying to rid the world of its poetry while getting it wrong fundamentally down at the church of "look,it sez right here, see!" Ani Difranco
Olive you posted too many topics in too short a time. Okay they were not 1 liners like 4x4 but doesn't change the fact that your confusing me.
coz its haram to comment on piggie topics :p
Wonder how many Muslims are gonna quit smoking now.
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How is nobody commenting on this?
literal people are scary, man, literal people scare me
out there trying to rid the world of its poetry while getting it wrong fundamentally down at the church of "look,it sez right here, see!" Ani Difranco