WARNING: Cigarettes may contain pig's blood!
Cigarette filters may have traces of pig's blood, an Australian professor has said, adding the devout may find this "very offensive".
Simon Chapman, a professor at the University of Sydney, said a recent Dutch research had identified 185 industrial uses of a pig - including the use of haemoglobin in cigarette filters.
"I think that there would be some particularly devout groups who would find the idea that there were pig products in cigarettes to be very offensive," Chapman was qouted as saying by Australian AAP news agency.
"The Jewish community certainly takes these matters extremely seriously and the Islamic community certainly do as well, as would many vegetarians."
Now with the disclosure of the fact, it’s evident that the Islamic Ummah shall have a hard time to get along with the idea. The usage of the pig hemoglobin will also find it difficult to gain acceptance from many vegetarians who are smokers.
However, if one delves deep into the matter, it is evident that the pig blood is being used to put a block to any and all harmful toxins that is present in the tobacco which if engulfed can be harmful for the smoker and cause adverse damage to the lungs. With a prominent Greece Cigarette brand confirming the use of pig protein in their cigarettes, all brands alike are being criticized severely for making honest disclosures on their websites as to what all ingredients they have been putting together into making their stuff.
This information will not go down favorably among the masses, specially among multitudes where pig is looked upon with religious sentiments.The research found pig haemoglobin was being used to make cigarette filters more effective in blocking harmful chemicals before it entered a smoker's lungs.
Professor Simon Chapman feels that these cigarette brands should keep it aloof from all its consumers and push it forward as a business secret, which would make their product acceptable without any shades of regret.
What is even more surprising is the staggering array of non-food products that incorporate parts of the pig. Who knew it took pig fat to make automobile paint? Or that hemoglobin from pig blood is used in cigarette filters? Bone ash, Meindertsma found, went into train brakes, bone meal into the coating for aluminum molds, and gelatin from the pig’s skin and bones was deployed by an American weapons manufacturer to help distribute powder to bullets.
Simon Chapman, a professor at the University of Sydney, said a recent Dutch research had identified 185 industrial uses of a pig - including the use of haemoglobin in cigarette filters.
"I think that there would be some particularly devout groups who would find the idea that there were pig products in cigarettes to be very offensive," Chapman was qouted as saying by Australian AAP news agency.
"The Jewish community certainly takes these matters extremely seriously and the Islamic community certainly do as well, as would many vegetarians."
Now with the disclosure of the fact, it’s evident that the Islamic Ummah shall have a hard time to get along with the idea. The usage of the pig hemoglobin will also find it difficult to gain acceptance from many vegetarians who are smokers.
However, if one delves deep into the matter, it is evident that the pig blood is being used to put a block to any and all harmful toxins that is present in the tobacco which if engulfed can be harmful for the smoker and cause adverse damage to the lungs. With a prominent Greece Cigarette brand confirming the use of pig protein in their cigarettes, all brands alike are being criticized severely for making honest disclosures on their websites as to what all ingredients they have been putting together into making their stuff.
This information will not go down favorably among the masses, specially among multitudes where pig is looked upon with religious sentiments.The research found pig haemoglobin was being used to make cigarette filters more effective in blocking harmful chemicals before it entered a smoker's lungs.
Professor Simon Chapman feels that these cigarette brands should keep it aloof from all its consumers and push it forward as a business secret, which would make their product acceptable without any shades of regret.
What is even more surprising is the staggering array of non-food products that incorporate parts of the pig. Who knew it took pig fat to make automobile paint? Or that hemoglobin from pig blood is used in cigarette filters? Bone ash, Meindertsma found, went into train brakes, bone meal into the coating for aluminum molds, and gelatin from the pig’s skin and bones was deployed by an American weapons manufacturer to help distribute powder to bullets.
