cigarette asbestos filter Micronite – The Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society Cross-section of an asbestos-laden cigarette

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 from 1952 to 1956, Kent Micronite filter cigarettes were heavily marketed with claims of superior health protection, despite containing a dangerous form of asbestos. Lorillard Tobacco Company advertised the Kent "Micronite" filter In the early 1950s, as medical research began linking cigarettes to lung cancer, tobacco companies scrambled to reassure the public. Kent Cigarettes, a brand owned by Lorillard, introduced its so called Micronite Filter Mesothelioma Alert: 1950's Asbestos Riddled Cigarettes

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