Tainted Pet Food Withdrawn From Stores

But tainted cigarettes are given a pass.....I applaud that we are more concerned about our pets than about humans. Another example of a two tiered system.

Bargain butts not high quality
Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 10:00

Local News - If you buy bargain smokes off native reserves, you may be getting more than you bargained for.

Cheap native-made cigarettes can contain dirt, metal filings and other unsavoury ingredients mixed in with the chemical stew of 4,200 chemicals found in all smokes, according to an analysis done by the federal Ministry of Revenue.

"They are pretty dangerous already," said Emily Hall of the Hastings and Prince Edward Counties Health Unit, adding the cheap smokes are often made with tobacco swept from the floor of cigarette manufacturing plants and sold illegally at clandestine auctions.

The tar and other chemical levels could be astronomical, too - much higher than that allowed in regulated legal cigarettes, she said.

Cpl. Walter Veenstra of the Kingston detachment of the RCMP said all cigarettes are deadly, but the cheap bags are the worst of the lot. "The quality of the cigarettes ... are certainly not of a normal cigarette," he said Tuesday. "It's certainly not high grade tobacco."

Hall said the revenue ministry analysed the cheap smokes and found metal filings, along with dirt and wooden-like pieces of tobacco plant stems.