Due to a mix up during registering for prep school, Spike somehow finds himself attending an all girls prep school
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What's next the Gym's equipment room?
Glad to see this is back!
Did nopony get the Palcomix reference?
An update?
Guess I'll pick this up again.
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Cigarette filters reduce tar buildup but contain carcinogens and other ingredients that are just as bad and in many cases worse. Early tests were funded by the companies to show controlled results. More recent tests that weren't influenced by them showed otherwise.
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A cigarette filter either is cellulose acetate, basically about as toxic as paper, or is paper; there may be activated charcoal in a particularly fancy cigarette, but that is just about it. There is no other ingredient that would not be there without the filter; even the flavouring in a flavoured cigarette could probably have been added to the tobacco.
It may not (and just about certainly does not) prevent the smoker from inhaling toxic and carcinogenic compounds, but it does not make the cigarette more toxic.
Basically, the only effect is that there is a "butt" that
A: holds the cigarette together (non-filtered cigarettes would disintegrate and get tobacco flakes in the smoker's mouth; the reason the filter end is orange is because many cigarettes had had "beauty tips" made of cork); and
B: absorbs some of the toxic smoke and nicotine and is therefore now toxic (remember, nicotine is itself toxic and used as a pesticide), especially to aquatic life.
Do I trust Big Tobacco with smokers' safety? No. But the danger is inherent in smoking tobacco (or maybe even in tobacco in general), and is there whether or not there is a filter.
PS: I read in the NYT article that filters used to contain asbestos (this would have been back in 1950-1960 when it was considered safe; remember, radium-water was sold as a health food as late as 1932), but I doubt it, and they certainly do not now.
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The international slave trade, not the internal slave trade. The US constitution had outlawed the international slave trade as well, but slaveowners could still buy and sell slaves within the US.
10629982
It didn’t ban the slave trade either, it just banned buying slaves from outside the confederacy, you could still buy and sell slaves within the confederacy and you could sell them overseas you just couldn’t bring any in. I’m not trying to harp on the confederates I’m just looking for some accuracy
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yes it is with afew improvements such as laser turrets defending the entrance and the place has double back up power stations that will keep power going til the main power is repaired and afew other things for this is a vault generation 2.0
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That sounds like a very Rainbow Dash thing too do... So maybe?