One message the movie reiterates is that an addict's self-image as a loser is almost as destructive as the demon chemicals themselves.

We can't even get credit for this, for this noxious, destructive chemical which destroys the mind - as Jonas says, a potent weapon of war.

Production of the most destructive chemicals, mainly chlorofluorocarbons, was halted or curtailed in the early and mid-1990's by international agreement.

Local tram regulations may give requirements for the passengers e.g. not to carry flammable, soiling or destructive chemicals or too space-blocking packages in trams.

Similarly, there is a milky fungus that controls Japanese beetles, once used successfully, then dropped in favor of destructive, expensive and unsuccessful chemicals, and now effectively being used again.

Although many years of CFC's are thus in the pipeline, the end of the steady increase in destructive chemicals that reach the high atmosphere may be in sight.

The research program is also identifying the degradation products found on the materials and their origins, as well as looking into ways to remove or counter these destructive chemicals.

But the Environmental Protection Agency has determined the hazard is real and cumulative; the destructive chemicals last for decades.

Free radicals are destructive chemicals that are believed to affect organs and arteries.

The damage may already be three times greater than the worst future loss assumed in a pending international treaty to cap production of the destructive chemicals.