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that old horse of mine, "we could reduce lung cancer if cigarette companies were not absolutely brainrotted"
Liggett Tobacco Group acknowledged that solvents used to wash the tobacco leaves also caused āremoval of most of the aromatic flavorants which give tobacco its characteristic and desirable aroma.ā 43 Liggettās assistant director of research concluded that washing the tobacco leaf was not commercially advantageous.44
(2006) Waking a Sleeping Giant: The Tobacco Industryās Response to the Polonium-210 Issue
by Monique E. Muggli, MPH, Jon O. Ebbert, MD, Channing Robertson, PhD, and Richard D. Hurt, MD
ABSTRACT
The major tobacco manufacturers discovered that polonium was part of tobacco and tobacco smoke more than 40 years ago and attempted, but failed, to remove this radioactive substance from their products. Internal tobacco industry documents reveal that the companies suppressed publication of their own internal research to avoid heightening the publicās awareness of radioactivity in cigarettes. Tobacco companies continue to minimize their knowledge about polonium-210 in cigarettes in smoking and health litigation. Cigarette packs should carry a radiation-exposure warning label.
I got a D- because this was, and I quote, "literally unbelievable". I was offered "cigarettes bad" as a topic because i couldn't think of one and they were exasperated at my inability to choose. so i went way too hard on it
this was probably four to six years before that paper came out, but there were quite a few people working on it. I had collected abstracts but didn't have journal access when i was like 14 or whatever. from like, reputable medical journals. I phone interviewed two ENTs.
but "oh so you're now saying everyone's just SMONKING POLONIUM huh". it was literally unbelievable to middle/highschool teachers in the 2000 era
anyway this topic is lodged in the back of my mind because of that
