Health impact of tobacco fertilizer

[asteroid1]

Does pipe tobacco grown using toxic fertilizers produce an extra health hazard when smoked?

 

[marmal4de]

Maybe Chero would know something, if not probably mlaug.

 

[nathaniel]

Inasmuch as they would or would not do such to vegetables eaten.

 

[mlaug]

I don't think fertilizers will increase a plant's potential toxicity, however if a topical pesticide is applied it may be a possibility. Most ag fertilizers are the same kind of stuff one can buy at the local home and garden store, nothing more toxic than that.
Our beloved vitamin N is a natural poison anyway. Its a way for the tobacco plant to protect itself from insects.
Pesticides would be my concern, but they're not really any more of a threat than one's standard grocery store vegetable/fruit produce. I can't speak about tobacco, but most any stuff that will enter the human food chain has a ton of safety protections.
From a marketing stand point....its stupid to poison your customers. :laughat:

 

[puffy]

I'm anything other than an expert on this subject.All I know is this type of thing is regulated by uncle sam.Some chemicals are no longer allowed to be used.Are the ones being used now safe?.Who really Knows?

 

[schmitzbitz]

Honestly, yes, you can find trace amounts of toxic chemicals in plants grown in "toxic" chemical based fertilizers. Of course, the catch 22 of the situation is that you can also find trace amounts of toxic chemicals in plants grown in cow-crap. You see, the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the earth we walk upon has been so innundated with toxic crap for the last couple of centuries that we can't avoid it, no matter how clean we live.

Is it something to concern one's self about? Certainly. I know I'm not the only person who thinks this has more to do with the steady and marked increase in cancers, circulatory and pulmonary diseases than tobacco or trans-fats. Is this a reason to put my pipes away? Hell no. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that I inhale more toxic crap letting my truck idle to warm in the -15c winter mornings (and I'm not giving that up either).

 

[cortezattic]

I inhale more toxic crap letting my truck idle to warm

No one who has ever been stuck in expressway traffic at rush hour

need be concerned about breathing-in toxins with their tobacco smoke;

or for that matter, worry about harm from 2nd hand smoke.