(Tabocco) Cigarettes May Cause Infections

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So now we can add this to the ~ 4000 chemicals of cigarettes if the "oh so concerned about our health" FDA forces us back to tobacco cigarettes by banning electronic cigarettes!!!!!!

Cigarettes May Cause Infections | Wired Science | Wired.com

Partial quote:

Sapkota’s team had 16S probes for close to 800 different bacteria and found matches to many hundreds in the four brands of cigarettes screened: Marlboro Red, Camel, Kool Filter Kings and Lucky Strike Original Red. These cigarettes are “among the most commonly smoked brands in Westernized countries and represent three major tobacco companies,” Sapkota notes. All were purchased in Lyon, France, where she was completing her postdoctoral studies.

Among the large number of germs whose dna laced these cigarettes were: Campylobacter, which can cause food poisoning and Guillain-Barre Syndrome; Clostridium, which causes food poisoning and pneumonias; Corynebacterium, also associated with pneumonias and other diseases; E. coli; Klebsiella, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, all of which are associated not only with pneumonia but also with urinary tract infections; and a number of Staphylococcus species that underlie the most common and serious hospital-associated infections.

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some more interesting article:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/03/the-cigarette-o/
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/03/philip-morris-t/