cigarettes with asbestos filter Kent Cigarette Box, Michigan State Medical Society, 1963 Mesothelioma Alert: 1950's Asbestos-Riddled Cigarettes

Mesothelioma Alert: 1950's Asbestos Riddled Cigarettes Cross section of an asbestos laden cigarette filter. Kent's Micronite filter cigarettes were popularly marketed as a "Taste Improvement" and "Kind on the Lungs". : r interestingasfuck In the early 1950s, as medical research began linking cigarettes to lung cancer, tobacco companies scrambled to reassure the public. Kent Cigarettes, a brand owned by Lorillard, introduced its so called Micronite Filter In 1952, when claims that smoking was linked to cancer, Kent cigaretts came out with an asbestos filter to protect its smokrs. Maybe not the answer they were hoping for. Asbestspotter Asbestos in Kent Cigarette Filters: A Shocking Past

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