Simran Sethi Takes on Tobacco
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Simran Sethi, co-author of Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy, has a new post on The Huffington Post’s Green section today in which she takes on the tobacco industry’s poisoning of America.
From the article:
Our little tobacco friends begin, as do so many things, in a field within a warm climate, where tobacco plants are doused with chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Once harvested by many hands–sometimes those of a child–the leaves are dried and cured for upwards of three years and finally shipped from the company farm to the company producer. That’s when the fun stuff gets added. The same ammonia that cleans your toilet helps your brain absorb nicotine more quickly. A chemical similar to rocket fuel keeps the tip of the cigarette burning efficiently. A little formaldehyde here, a little fungicide there. By the time leaves are cut down to size, adorned with filters, nestled in foil and wrapped in cellophane, one carton of cigarettes has wreaked a lot of havoc.
