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Here is a rabbit hole regarding tobacco which I still don’t fully comprehend:

> Waking a Sleeping Giant: The Tobacco Industry’s Response to the Polonium-210 Issue https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2509609/

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=japan+lung+cancer+paradox!g

What is actually going on here?



Wait, so is it in iqos and heated tobacco too? That would be huge. What about in Vapes made from tobacco?


Anything made from natural sources will be contaminated to some degree. The only thing that should be (relatively) clean is fully synthetic vape stuff.


Man, that's trippy.


"lower levels of carcinogenic ingredients in Japanese cigarettes"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18420238

I get Fallout vibes here.


I'd consider glowing cigarettes, tbh

Plus that VATS bonus




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