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To: Alan Gallaspy who wrote (36709)	8/13/2000 1:40:42 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

OT Alan, That was a harsh comment of me, especially considering that benzoapyrene is a fairly common ingredient in many lives. This only helps prove my contention that tobacco is not the ONLY CAUSAL FACTOR in many supposed smoking related illnesses. Excerpt: When you use a gasoline-powered engine like the one in your car, or light a fire in a wood stove or fireplace, or even barbecue a steak, or smoke a cigarette, you produce Benzo(a)pyrene It also may be found where high-temperature food fryers and broilers are used. The largest sources of B(a)P are open burning and home heating with wood and coal. Home wood burning alone contributes 40 percent of all the B(a)P released each year nationwide. Industries that bum wood, gas, oil, coal or contribute most of the rest of airborne B(a)P. lehigh.edu Material Backgrounder: Benzo(a)pyrene When we burn wood, coal or petroleum products to heat our homes, power vehicles or fuel industrial processes, chemicals are released. Among these chemicals is a group of multi-ring hydrogen and carbon compounds known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHS, which are commonly found in the emissions from burned plant and petroleum products. One of the most studied of the PAHs is benzo(a)pyrene, also called B(a)P, which is present in coal tar at coke oven plants. The B(a)P content of coal tar is between 0.1% and 1% and it contributes to the serious potential health effects for employees exposed to coke oven emissions. I am not swallowing the propaganda, as you claim. Rather, I am questioning many of the claims made by those who are anti-tobacco who would have you believe that there are no lifestyle contributing factors, as the ones enumerated above. BK