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Iran Sez Black Market Marlboros Contaminated With Radioactive Pig Blood
2010-08-02
That'll sure spike the old appetite...
An Iranian official says cigarettes smuggled into Iran have been tainted with pig blood and nuclear material as part of a Western conspiracy.

The semiofficial Mehr news agency quotes Mohammad Reza Madani from the Society for Fighting Smoking as saying contraband Marlboros have been contaminated with pig hemoglobin and unspecified nuclear material.

Madani claims Philip Morris International, which sells Marlboro outside the U.S., is "led by Zionists" and deliberately exports tainted cigarettes. He provided no evidence or information about the confiscated cigarettes. Friday's report also gave no details on how the contamination was discovered.

Tehran, which often alleges Western conspiracies, says 20 billion cigarettes are smuggled into Iran every year.
Posted by: Anonymoose

#8  Perhaps a pig bitten by a radioactive spider ...
Posted by: DMFD   2010-08-02 18:49  

#7  Iranians release picture of chief suspect.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2010-08-02 14:19  

#6  The Marlboro man was CIA? Who knew? I had wondered where they got their peculiarly satisfying flavor.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2010-08-02 12:36  

#5  All right 'fess up: which one of you did it?
Posted by: AzCat   2010-08-02 11:56  

#4  "Geeze louise! Um... What's in the Kools?"
Posted by: mojo   2010-08-02 10:23  

#3  And once you get radioactive pigs, you know what happens next? (Somewhat NSFW)
Posted by: Anonymoose   2010-08-02 10:14  

#2  But they don't know about the centrifuges yet, do they...
Posted by: Bobby   2010-08-02 06:01  

#1  ION TOPIX > IRAN MILITARY OFFICIAL: IRAN WILL RESPOND TO ANY ATTACK BEYOND ITS GEOGRAPHICAL BORDERS.

and

* NEWS KERALA > [Muslims agz Crusaders] NEW MUSLIM TERROR GROUP THREATENS TO UNLEASH TERROR ATROCITY SIMILAR TO 07/7 IN UK, andor 9-11 as occurred in the US but now agz Britain.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-08-02 00:44  

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