Big Tobacco Companies Covered Up Radiation Dangers From Smoking
September 7th, 2008
Kabuki wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
Tobacco companies have covered up for 40 years the fact that cigarette smoke contains a dangerous radioactive substance that exposes heavy smokers to the radiation equivalent of having 300 chest X-rays a year.
Internal company records reveal that cigarette manufacturers knew that tobacco contained polonium-210 but avoided drawing public attention to the fact for fear of […]
Read the rest of this great post here
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