THE proof is evident that the smoke of tobacco is the least cause (two per cent the most) in the mixture of foreign substances that enter the human bodies; serving as causal factor of the many different types of cancer and other deadly conditions that affect and have resulted in the death of so many people globally.

Therefore, it must be resolved that at no time the smoke of tobacco enters the body alone, but in the mixture of oxygen with the more deadly carbon monoxide, the other deadly carbonic substances and the most deadly radiation from the proliferation of nuclear waste and harmful viruses from the atmosphere.

Notwithstanding the nuclear changes that are created as byproducts from such mixture, the cells battle against the deadly foreign substances that are consistently invading the body and over-working and thereby weakening the defence mechanism of the body.

It is therefore questionable why the Surgeon General of the USA and other countries of the global community spoke so openly and so boldly against tobacco smoking with a tag on each box of cigarette, but said nothing and are so silent about the more deadly carbon monoxide, the other deadly carbonic elements of the combustion chamber of the auto-mechanical industries and the most deadly radiation from the proliferation of nuclear waste from the nuclear industries that comprised 98 per cent of the pollution on Earth?

Cancers that develop in the human body are by-products of the cells in their fight against harmful foreign substances that invaded the body and weakened the cells by over-working their defence mechanism and thereby disturbing their production of new cells and enzymes.

Consequently, there are different types of cancers according to the different by-products of the different systems, organs, glands, tissues, the blood, brain and bone marrow of the body. Whereas the mixture of the more and most deadly poisons consistently enters the body, oxygen mixture with tobacco smoking is periodical.

As proof, my grandmother was born on the 27th of August, 1898 and died on the 28th of February, 1988. Along with others her age and older in the adjacent communities, she started smoking tobacco, in her early 20s when she started to have children. Apart from pellagra — the disturbing symptoms of which they controlled by smoking tobacco — all these people lived healthy lives and respectively died in their old age without being affected by cancer and the other conditions that are wrongfully blamed on tobacco smoking.

My grandmother grew her own tobacco and did what is called chain smoking with her chalk pipe. Apart from pellagra, she had never been ill and had never gone to a doctor and or physician throughout her 90 years, with the exception of getting the necessary immunisation shots.

For my grandmother and others in the adjacent neighbourhood, their more or less proper health was based on the unprocessed fresh foods that they ate. They had lived in the rural hilly areas of the Dry Harbour Mountains. This is far away from the town and city areas with the many automobiles and factories with the density of carbon monoxide, radiation and viruses that are chief among the deadly wastes in the immediate environment.

In the environment of the hilly areas, therefore, the mixture of carbon monoxide, radiation and the other deadly wastes in the atmosphere are less and are at a more controlled level than the high density in the towns and cities. However, if it were not for the acid rains, other contaminants in the water supply and other necessary foods that are processed, etc their span could have been greater.

Therefore, with pellagra as the cause of the smoking of tobacco and niacin as the only antidote against pellagra, it is necessary for the minister of health to institute a rapid public education programme; in the proper use of niacin against pellagra.

The minister would be doing the correct thing to control and help eradicate the disease so as to prevent the smoking of tobacco and whatsoever danger to health it caused in the mixture with the more and most deadly substances.

This process is the light to destroy the darkness of making criminals of the victims of pellagra by criminalising the smoking of tobacco that cannot cure pellagra.

Dr Basil R Simms is a biochemist and business consultant. He may

be contacted at 416-5546 or e-mail: basil.simms@cwjamaica.com