It said Kents Micronite filter offered the greatest health protection in cigarette history, and was designed for The one out of every three smokers who is unusually sensitive to tobacco tars and nicotine. In its advertising, Lorillard said its quest for the new filter ended in an atomic energy plant, where the makers of Kent found a material being used to filler air of microscopic impurities Another ad described Micronite as a pure, dust-free, completely harmless material. In reality, the dust-free, completely harmless material contained crocidolite, also called African blue asbestos for its origin and bluish color and regarded by many experts as the most hazardous of the six asbestos minerals
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The most common response was no change in substance use, ranging from 40% for tobacco to 57% for heavy episodic drinking (proportion of respondents indicating no change in the remaining categories: frequency of drinking = 42%
There is no benefit to our society for allowing the sale of tobacco products, and more jurisdictions are now acting to remove them from store shelves
