Freebasing Nicotine with 10 Million lbs of Ammonia Annually

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A crack rock; freebase cocaine

(NaturalNews) How can so many people be so stuck in a "habit" and unable to escape? What if you found out that the third most addicting drug in the world was "juiced up" with a potent, deadly and volatile chemical, and has been for five decades? Let's get right into this one: ammonia does not register on nicotine level testing, but a chemical process similar to freebasing cocaine is used to enhance the potency of nicotine up to 35 times, and this alone converts bound nicotine molecules into free molecules, reaching the heart and brain within 3 seconds. This form of nicotine is highly addictive and travels so quickly in the body because it vaporizes into a gas that is absorbed by the lungs and then distributed to the brain and heart immediately.

Decades ago, the entire tobacco industry, better known as "Big Tobacco," was brought to court in Minnesota for marketing fraud and for illegally "hooking" their customers with this supercharged nicotine. By 1990, tobacco companies were shown to be using more than 10 million pounds of ammonia compounds each year; that is why Marlboro nearly put every other brand out of business back in the 1960's and early 70's, because they were the strongest and fastest-hitting nicotine fix or "nic-fit" brand. Once R.J. Reynolds caught on to the "Breaking Bad" style of cooking nicotine with ammonia, the rest of Big Tobacco jumped on board, and here we are today, 45,000,000 people deep in America alone, and the number is growing.

An addiction expert at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine conducted a study on this and said, "The modern cigarette does to nicotine what crack does to cocaine."

Also, Ian Jones, a nicotine expert at Bath University in the UK, said, "Free-base nicotine is the most damaging form because it is the optimal configuration for binding to the nicotine receptors in the brain and heart." Therefore,

smoking a pack a day in 2013
is equivalent to smoking 700 cigarettes in 1960,


before commercial cigarette manufacturers starting cooking the nicotine with ammonia. So the question then is, if you're a smoker, are you hooked to a deadly gas?
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Nicotine is a stimulant at first, but then becomes a long term depressant. This mood "elevator" (pun intended) picks you up a little only to drop you off, big time. It also kills appetite and the nutrients in your system. Ammonia drags smokers DOWN, into the fix, into the addiction. One cigarette could actually be delivering up to 100 milligrams of nicotine potency, and this much, if injected, would cause death from overdose. Currently, 25 million men and about 21 million women suck back about 2,000 milligrams of nicotine daily in their pack-a-day habit, and then there are those who smoke two, three or even four packs a day. Some people even smoke in the shower.

This artificial dopamine control is why smokers don't quit. Statistics show that over half of all smokers want to quit but can't. This is why most quit-smoking programs, including the patch, nicotine gum, medications, scary commercials, billboards and magazine ads rarely, if ever, help people quit smoking for good. People have become accustomed to regulating their emotions with freebased nicotine, and when something stressful comes along, recent "quitters" find themselves going right back to the well for another supercharged nic-fix.
(http://ffn.yuku.com)

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Another reason not to smoke (I hate cigarettes), but does that work? Are you getting 700 times the nicotine? Study:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22001171

Effect of ammonia in cigarette tobacco on nicotine absorption in human smokers.

van Amsterdam J, Sleijffers A, van Spiegel P, Blom R, Witte M, van de Kassteele J, Blokland M, Steerenberg P, Opperhuizen A.


Source

National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), PO Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands. Jan.van.Amsterdam@rivm.nl


Abstract


The function of ammonia as tobacco additive is subject of scientific debate. It is argued that ammonia, by increasing the proportion of free nicotine, increases the absorption of nicotine in smokers. As a result of the addition of ammonia to cigarettes, smokers get exposed to higher internal nicotine doses and become more addicted to the product. On two occasions, the nicotine absorption in blood was measured after smoking a commercial cigarette of either brand 1 or brand 2, which differed 3.8-fold in ammonium salt content. Using a standardized smoking regime (six puffs, 30 s puff interval, 7 s breath hold before exhalation), 51 regular smokers smoked brand 1 (Caballero Smooth Flavor; 0.89 mg ammonium per gram tobacco) and brand 2 (Gauloise Brunes; 3.43 mg ammonium per gram tobacco). Puff volumes and cardiovascular parameters were monitored during and following smoking, respectively. Measurement of serum nicotine level in the blood samples collected over time following smoking of the two brands, showed that total amount of nicotine absorbed did not differ between the two brands. Present results demonstrate that smoking tobacco containing a higher amount of the tobacco additive ammonium does not increase the absorption of nicotine in the smoker's body.

Interesting part from a link in the OP: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2424107/

The tobacco industry also uses ammonia to remove nicotine from tobacco. The procedure is simple: Tobacco leaves are exposed to gaseous ammonia, which replaces nicotine in the salts that bind the alkaloid to the leaf. The ammonia and resulting nicotine are then removed by steam. This method of nicotine reduction gives tobacco manufacturers a degree of control over the amount of nicotine in a given tobacco blend

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Lowers cancer risk of cigarettes? (again from link in the OP):

Prior even to the discovery of ammonia’s ability to increase nicotine availability, however, tobacco companies were using the reagent in confidential experiments to reduce carcinogens in cigarettes. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, industry scientists were researching the idea that certain ammonium salts, such as ammonium sulfamate and ammonium chloride, could reduce the levels of benzpyrene,19 one of the forty carcinogens in cigarette smoke named by Helmut Wakeham, Philip Morris’s director of research and development, in 1961.20 This research on reducing benzpyrene was part of Philip Morris’s Project 0107, the purpose of which was to develop cigarettes with “less tendency to cause lung cancer in smokers.”21 The Celanese Corporation in 1964 patented a tobacco substitute “in which ammonia salts are used to inhibit benz-a-pyrene formation,”22 and in 1967 British American Tobacco researchers reported similar reductions with potassium carbonate.

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Yep and they keep trying to put me a it of business selling all natural smokes....