Tobacco Industry Knew But Kept Quiet About Cancer Risk From Radioactive Particles In Cigarettes Say US Researchers

• Tobacco Industry Knew But Kept Quiet About Cancer Risk From Radioactive Particles In Cigarettes Say US Researchers

  Posted: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:00:00 PDT

  UCLA researchers who analyzed dozens of previously unexamined internal documents from the tobacco industry say tobacco companies developed "deep and intimate" knowledge about the cancer-causing potential of radioactive alpha particles in cigarette smoke but deliberately kept it from the public for more than four decades. The researchers wrote a paper about their findings that was published online on 27 September in the peer-reviewed journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research...