Cigarettes Contain Radioactive Polonium

Cigarettes are known to cause cancer... But we now know there's another reason why... they contain radioactive material, specifically polonium-210! Tobacco companies also have known about it since 1959. As reported in ABC , historical documents reveal tobacco companies not only knew about the radioactive substance, but studied it, then refused to do anything about it! They figured out that: 1) It caused "cancerous growths" in the lungs of smokers, 2) Calculated how much…

9/30/2011 0

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Smoking is Highly Addictive in Kids (Teens and Babies) [video]

All it takes is one cigarette a month. A recent study in Pediatrics that tracked the course of addiction to smoking among a group of sixth-graders found that smoking only one cigarette a month was all it took to become dependent. In the study titled " Early Course of Nicotine Dependence in Adolescent Smokers ," the researchers found that one cigarette a month or one cigarette a week was enough to keep addiction satisfied, but as time goes by, the child has to smoke cigarettes m…

5/31/2010 0

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Another Reason to Stop Smoking... Decreased Sense of Taste

Greek researchers published a study in which they described a significant decrease in taste ability in smokers compared to non-smokers. In the study titled " Evaluation of young smokers and non-smokers with electrogustometry and contact endoscopy ," 62 male Greek soldiers were evaluated for smoking and taste by using two different instruments called electrogustometry (measures taste thresholds) and contact endoscopy (wich evaluated the morphology and density of papillae on the tongue…

8/24/2009 0

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