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Remember When Big Tobacco Sold Asbestos as the “Greatest Health Protection”? – Mother Jones

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Interesting Engineering | When early studies linked smoking to cancer, Lorillard Tobacco tried to calm fears by releasing Kent cigarettes in 1952 with a “Micronite”

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Knee jerk reactions to a perceived safety problem can lead to doing more harm. The concept that cigarettes caused cancer is not new. In 1952 the Lorillard Tobacco Company marketed the original

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The failed history of tobacco harm reduction

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1 1969 The Myth of the “Safe” Cigarette: Filters and “Health Reassurance” Cigarettes (“No other cigarette approaches

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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

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Unusual Uses of Asbestos in History

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