If you smoked Kents in the 1950s....The fine, hairy fibers (arrow) sticking out Adj. 1. sticking out - extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary; "the jutting limb of a tree"; "massive projected buttresses"; "his protruding ribs"; "a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck" of the filter of this 40-year-old Kent cigarette are crocidolite crocidolite or blue asbestos Gray-blue to green, highly fibrous (asbestiform) form of the amphibole mineral riebeckite. It has higher tensile strength than chrysotile asbestos. , a very carcinogenic carcinogenic having a capacity for carcinogenesis. type of asbestos. Each puff of smoke from these cigarettes--some 11.7 billion of which were sold through at least May 1956--could carry more than 131 million asbestos structures (each containing up to hundreds of fibers), a new study shows. William E. Longo of Materials Analytical Services in Norcross, Ga., and his colleagues used mechanical smoking devices to study the asbestos released by Kents from previously unopened packs. They say their data, reported in the June 1 Cancer Research, suggest that early Kent smokers--even those who gave up cigarettes long ago--may face some risk of mesothelioma Mesothelioma Definition Mesothelioma is an uncommon disease that causes malignant cancer cells to form within the lining of the chest, abdomen, or around the heart. Its primary cause is believed to be exposure to asbestos. , a virulent, asbestos-related cancer. |
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