Waking a Sleeping Giant: The Tobacco Industry’s Response to the Polonium-210 Issue
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Waking a sleeping giant: the tobacco industry's response to the polonium-210 issue.
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 public's awareness of radioactivity in cigarettes. To...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2007.130963