Radiation in tobacco compounds cancer risks
The rising costs of healthcare have prompted many American patients to look for a Canadian internet pharmacy that sells prescriptions and over-the-counter meds at a discount.
The rising costs of healthcare have prompted many American patients to look for a Canadian internet pharmacy that sells prescriptions and over-the-counter meds at a discount. This may include smoking cessation aides such as nicotine gum, which has proven to be popular at businesses like Canada Drug Center. Smokers may have a new motivation to quit, thanks to research that says the tobacco industry not only knew their products were radioactive, but also chose not to do anything about it or release that information.
As part of a settlement with the federal government in 1998, the tobacco industry handed over a series of previously unreleased research on the health effects of tobacco. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, reviewed several studies concerning radioactive substances. Polonium-210, found in all commercially available cigarettes, becomes concentrated in tobacco leaves because of fertilizers and atmospheric gas. When inhaled, it can cause the cigarette smoke to stick to areas of the lungs and form "hot spots." This compounds the risk of cancer already posed by the myriad of chemicals in smoke.
The tobacco industry had discovered a way to remove polonium-210, but ignored it when it discovered that the process impeded the addictive effects of nicotine.
This new study can be important because the Food and Drug Administration has the right to remove all toxins from cigarettes, except for nicotine.
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