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Likely the worst component of cigarettes is Polonium 210. This apparently comes from phosphorus rich fertilizers. This is quite an interesting rabbit hole to j
by consumer451 5y ago
Likely the worst component of cigarettes is Polonium 210. This apparently comes from phosphorus rich fertilizers.
This is quite an interesting rabbit hole to jump into.
https://www.google.com/search?q=pubmed+polonium+tobacco https://www.google.com/search?q=pubmed+polonium+tobacco
One of the more interesting ones: “Waking a Sleeping Giant: The Tobacco Industry’s Response to the Polonium-210 Issue“
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2509609/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2509609/
My hot take: Tobacco seems like the most important product to consume from “organic” growers.
- xyzzy21 5y agoYep. And a lot of this is made worse by using mined phosphate fertilizers which are formed geologically such that transuranic daughter elements are concentrated into the phosphate. Tobacco itself also concentrates them.