Citing the nearly 600 additives that mainstream tobacco companies use to improve the taste and freshness of their cigarettes, many health food stores are now doing a brisk business selling—get this—organic cigarettes. Containing 100 percent tobacco, all-natural brands still contain dangerous pathogens such as tar and nicotine at levels at least as high as mainstream brands.

The owner of one firm that manufactures a brand of all-natural cigarettes attributes his success in part to advertising in such "higher consciousness" magazines such as Mother Earth News and Mind Body Spirit.

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