aluminum stem

[NightProwler]

ok, i've been looking for a better stem for my bong because right now i have a copper one and ive heard that copper is harmful. So i found a rod from a Halex Foosball tabel we were throwing out and i'm not sure if it's aluminum or steel. does anyne know if aluminum is harmful or not?

[Mirno Sctlnd]

Aluminium is fuckin bad for you! Bin it if it is aluminium! Or theirs a big risk of getting altziemers disease which isn't a good thing, trust me I know people with it.

[koshea]

Aluminium is fuckin bad for you! Bin it if it is aluminium! Or theirs a big risk of getting altziemers disease which isn't a good thing, trust me I know people with it.


theres acually a very minute small, almost no risk of getting altziemers from usin tin foil, the same risk comes with wrapping meat in tin foil becuase the "altziemers causing material" leeches into the meat, but ive been smokin with foil and eatin outta foil for years, as has my uncles, aunts, and hundreds of others with no problems, myth myth myth myth myth

[codunc]

see if its magnetic to tell if its aluminum or steel

[Edgar]

Also, aluminum is much lighter than steel.

[NightProwler]

i tested it with a magnet and it's magnetic, so that means it's steel right?

[Cacophony]

i tested it with a magnet and it's magnetic, so that means it's steel right?

Right.

[Mirno Sctlnd]

theres acually a very minute small, almost no risk of getting altziemers from usin tin foil, the same risk comes with wrapping meat in tin foil becuase the "altziemers causing material" leeches into the meat, but ive been smokin with foil and eatin outta foil for years, as has my uncles, aunts, and hundreds of others with no problems, myth myth myth myth myth

Hmm perhaps it is but still I always heat a tin foil gauze for ages before I smoke from it and you can see and smell alot of chemicals rising off of it as you heat it, which even if they were harmless they still taste and smell horrible.

[Mirno Sctlnd]

ahh just found this.

"From the earliest days of food regulation, the use of alum (aluminum sulphate) in foods has been condemned. It is universally acknowledged as a poison in all countries. If the Bureau of Chemistry had been permitted to enforce the law ... no food product in the country would have any trace of ... any aluminum or saccarin. No soft drink would contain caffeine or hebromin; no bleached flour would be in interstate commerce. Our food and drugs would be wholly without adulteration ... and the health of our people would be vastly improved and their life greatly extended."

From History of crime against the Food Laws (1929) by Dr. Wiley, the prime mover behind the original Pure Food Law and Director of the FDA. He resigned in disgust in 1912 over exceptions granted to the law and lack of enforcement.

Aluminum has been exempted from tesitng for safety by the FDA under a convoluted logic wherein it is classified as GRAS. (Generally Regarded As Safe.) It has never been tested by the FDA on its safety and there are NO restrictions whatever on the amount or use of aluminum.

There are over 2000 references in the National Library of Medicine on adverse effects of alumium. The following were extracted to provide a small sample of the range of toxicity of aluminum.