Which is the "healthiest" tobacco for J's??

Hi and a merry christmas.
I allways roll my joints with tobacco (I know in an ideal world I wouldn't use any and if weed wasn't £25 an eith round here i wouldn't use any) However I do have to use tobacco to pad out my J's and it often leaves me thinking, what is the healthiest or cleanest tobacco on the british market?.

A friend of mine recently told me that silk cut silvers are put through a sort of washing system 5 times in order to clear out as much of the shite that fags have in them, therefore I am currently ripping open silk cut silvers to pad out my smokes. Another brand that i used for a period of time was American spirit whitch is said to be 100% additive free.
The other thing i was taking into consideration was that i knew packet cigaretts have an added chemical in them which makes them burn slower, but which i'm also told is actually in the paper which for all intentative purposes isn't relevant when cutting them up to make joints.

I really want some weed smoking, chemistry student, geniuses to come out of the wood work for this one and blow my arguments to pieces and give me some solid facts. So roll up roll up!!! give me info!

Thanks for your time
G
Peace, love and flowers x

Tobacco smokers are not aware that their health is deteriorating, not because of tobacco or the contained nicotine, but because of two main elements typical to commercial cigarettes:

1. The additives. Additives for flavor, color, consistency, taste, aroma, for a fast and even burning, for greater absorption of nicotine etc etc. And nowadays these additives are even in Roll-Your-Own tobacco. To get a clearer picture of the seriousness of additives, here's the impressive list of additives:

http://quitsmoking.about.com/cs/nicotineinhaler/a/cigingredients.htm

I am a med student and have spotted at least 10 substances in this list that are highly cancerous and lung-damaging.

To further prove the negative effect of additives, my med school did a trial, measuring lung capacity and age for commercial tobacco smokers, homegrown tobacco smokers, second hand smokers and non-smokers. The result: homegrown additive free tobacco smokers had lungs as healthy as the non smokers.

2. Smoking paper. Typical white smoking paper contains wood/hemp/rice/tobacco pulp, occasionally some aroma/flavor and is treated with oxidizing substances (usually chlorine) to whiten/bleach them. These substances, when burned, are reduced to cancerous and lung damaging elements. The best way out of this is to use clear 100% cellulose rolling paper. No pulp, no bleaching, no additives. Plus, because there is no pulp, the paper won't heat up as much and the joint will burn out insead of burning away like a normal cigarette. Also because of the absence of pulp, you will notice that there is less smoke escaping from the burnt end of the joint, since the cellulose doesn't burn away. Thus, you loose less cannabinoids through the burned end then with a normal rolling paper, making your weed last longer and be more potent.

The only argument I have to support this is personal experience. Cellulose will still break down from the heat into some bad substances, but these are still way less damaging than burnt pulp or bleach. If the image of transparent rolling papers is not for you, try RAW rolling papers. These contain no bleach and are 100% organic.

The very best tobacco on the market is American Spirit Tobacco, the ONLY tobacco with 0% additives. In the US they have several types of AST, one of them (the red putch type) is organically grown. I have personally felt that this is the very best tobacco I've ever smoked. I believe this is the only type that is sold in Europe, and is packadged in orange/yellow poutches.

I have found this man's experience and testimony very relevant and truthful regarding AST:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp0W1Zqu8Q4 (part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDX5jXUHTXc (part 2)

I am a med student and have found these facts to be true. I hope this was useful.

I use American Spirits for years now and can tell a cigerette with additives a mile away now. It is strange, I was never able to tell when I used to smoke Marlboro, but once you smoke additive free cigs/jays for a while it becomes very noticable.

Unity

unity said:

I use American Spirits for years now and can tell a cigerette with additives a mile away now. It is strange, I was never able to tell when I used to smoke Marlboro, but once you smoke additive free cigs/jays for a while it becomes very noticable.

Unity

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They give those smokes out at Bonnaroo , Just show your Id and they chuck you packs at a time .. I still have some ..

I'm not trying to highjack the thread, but if you are looking for the healthiest way of consuming weed you need to consider cooking with weed or vaporizing.

Vaporizers heat up the pot without actually burning it. Thus, the cannabinoids evaporate and are inhaled, while tar and smoke are not even produced. After completely vaporizing your green it becomes light/dark brown. I've tried smoking that and concluded that all cannabinoids were completely removed through vaporizing.

Vaporizers I recommend are: Ubie, VaporGenie, VaporStar (my fav), electronic vaporizer (I have a Vaporite). Also, if you enjoy smoking your green with tobacco, these will succesfully vaporize weed-tobacco mixes or just tobacco, extracting all the nicotine. It's an investment for your health and I'd recommend vaporizers anyday.

Again, I know the thread is about tobacco and tobacco (+weed) smoking, but if health is your concern, then these details should have been useful.

Amazing!!! Doctor cannabis that is exactly the sort of info I was after, and please dont worry about posting alot it's been really helpfull.
I went back to using American spirit today and the RAWs are on order. ( OCB-xperts will do for now.) oh and a batch of special cakes were made tonight too. he he! Thank you to all that posted and any one else that wishes to continue posting please do so.
Peace, Love and flowers
G