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Originally posted by MR Budweiser
Tobacco crops grown in the United States are fertilized by law with phosphates rich in radium 226. In addition, many soils have a natural radium 226 content. <b> Radium 226 breaks down into two long lived 'daughter' elements -- lead 210 and polonium 210. </b> These radioactive particles become airborne, and attach themselves to the fine hairs on tobacco leaves.
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I grew up in a tobacco patch and grew tobacco every summer until I moved away at age 23. I have never, ever, ever heard of a lwa that required tobacco farmers to fertilize their plants. If you wanted to fertilize, that was fine, if you didn't well that was your tough luck as well. But there is no law on the books taht says you have to fertilize.