Not only is smoking deadly, but new research alleges that pigs' blood is used in the manufacture of filters of the kind used in Indonesian cigarettes.
In a claim likely to cause consternation to many Indonesians of the Muslim faith, a Dutch author has published a book that claims that pigs’ blood is used in the manufacture of cigarette filters.
Professor Simon Chapman from the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney was quoted on the university’s Web site as saying, “Many devout Islamic and Jewish smokers and some vegetarians would be horrified to think they were putting a filter in their mouth which contained a pig product,” Chapman said.
Pig 05049, written by Christien Meindertsma, lists 185 different ways that pigs’ bodies can be used, including, according to the Web site, the manufacture of sweets and shampoo, to bread, body lotion, beer and bullets.
Pig hemoglobin is, according to the book, used to filter harmful chemicals contained in cigarettes.
Kartono Muhammad, the former head of the Indonesian Doctors Association, told Detik.com that Indonesia imported filters for locally made cigarettes.
The Muslim Consumer Association of Malaysia has called on authorities there to investigate the claims.
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