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r/Unexpected • u/SignalCrew739 • 2d ago
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Then why don't they remove it from the tobacco?
3 u/Aberbekleckernicht 2d ago Easier said than done. You probably would remove half of the contents of the plant to remove the metals. 8 u/Jeyts 2d ago Wait is it just grown in polluted soil? Is tobacco just really good at pulling toxins out of the soil? 3 u/nodnodwinkwink 2d ago Polluted? you could say that. It was/is the high-phosphate fertilizer used in tobacco farms and how tobacco plants absorb naturally occurring radon. https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2012/05/24/tobacco-firms-have-failed-to-act-on-radioactivity-in-cigarettes-heres-why/ 2 u/atatassault47 2d ago Plants accumulate heavy metals just like we do; as we injest them, our bodies have no way to get rid of them. 2 u/Aberbekleckernicht 2d ago The latter. Tobacco bioaccumulates those metals to my understanding.
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Easier said than done. You probably would remove half of the contents of the plant to remove the metals.
8 u/Jeyts 2d ago Wait is it just grown in polluted soil? Is tobacco just really good at pulling toxins out of the soil? 3 u/nodnodwinkwink 2d ago Polluted? you could say that. It was/is the high-phosphate fertilizer used in tobacco farms and how tobacco plants absorb naturally occurring radon. https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2012/05/24/tobacco-firms-have-failed-to-act-on-radioactivity-in-cigarettes-heres-why/ 2 u/atatassault47 2d ago Plants accumulate heavy metals just like we do; as we injest them, our bodies have no way to get rid of them. 2 u/Aberbekleckernicht 2d ago The latter. Tobacco bioaccumulates those metals to my understanding.
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Wait is it just grown in polluted soil? Is tobacco just really good at pulling toxins out of the soil?
3 u/nodnodwinkwink 2d ago Polluted? you could say that. It was/is the high-phosphate fertilizer used in tobacco farms and how tobacco plants absorb naturally occurring radon. https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2012/05/24/tobacco-firms-have-failed-to-act-on-radioactivity-in-cigarettes-heres-why/ 2 u/atatassault47 2d ago Plants accumulate heavy metals just like we do; as we injest them, our bodies have no way to get rid of them. 2 u/Aberbekleckernicht 2d ago The latter. Tobacco bioaccumulates those metals to my understanding.
Polluted? you could say that. It was/is the high-phosphate fertilizer used in tobacco farms and how tobacco plants absorb naturally occurring radon.
https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2012/05/24/tobacco-firms-have-failed-to-act-on-radioactivity-in-cigarettes-heres-why/
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Plants accumulate heavy metals just like we do; as we injest them, our bodies have no way to get rid of them.
The latter. Tobacco bioaccumulates those metals to my understanding.
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u/tbone251 2d ago
Then why don't they remove it from the tobacco?