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Can you please explain black mold and is it found in a common cigarette?

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Mold: Stachybotrys, commonly known as black mold, grows in damp areas. Not in cigarettes. The black tarring of lungs from cigarettes is not mold, it is dead tissue.

Answered 4/5/2013

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