Big Tobacco knew radioactive Po210 in cigarettes posed cancer risk, kept quiet

Re:Big Tobacco knew radioactive Po210 in cigarettes posed ca... by martinald on Saturday July 29, 2023 @06:35PM (#36925468)

This isn't really true. Most of the death from smoking comes from other lung & heart problems, not cancer.

As such even if you smoke for many decades and quit your risk decreases dramatically pretty quickly, even within days.

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Re:Big Tobacco knew radioactive Po210 in cigarettes posed ca... by patmcc on Saturday July 29, 2023 @08:38PM (#36926432)

Quite an interesting chart near the bottom of this page - https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/quit_smoking/how_to_quit/benefit... - doesn't quantify everything, unfortunately, but yeah even after a year the "risk of heart attack drops sharply". Interesting.

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Re:Big Tobacco knew radioactive Po210 in cigarettes posed ca... by pfdietz on Saturday July 29, 2023 @08:44PM (#36926482)

And even cancer is getting more treatable these days. Lung cancer is no longer an automatic death sentence (although it often does still kill.)

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