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Mesothelioma Alert: 1950's Asbestos Riddled Cigarettes Unusual News Case of Cigarettes with Asbestos Filters Still Unsettled after 60 Years AllGov News Interesting Engineering When early studies linked smoking to cancer, Lorillard Tobacco tried to calm fears by releasing Kent cigarettes in 1952 with a Micronite Instagram Kent cigarettes, introduced in 1952 by the P. Lorillard Company, utilized a Micronite filter made primarily of crocidolite (blue asbestos), one of the most dangerous forms of the mineral. This marketing as Cross section of an asbestos laden cigarette filter. Kent's Micronite filter cigarettes were popularly marketed as a "Taste Improvement" and "Kind on the Lungs". : r interestingasfuck
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