kent asbestos cigarette Box, Michigan State Medical Society, 1963 In the early 1950s, as

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 Kent cigarettes, introduced in 1952 by the P. Lorillard Company, utilized a Micronite filter made primarily of crocidolite (blue asbestos), one of the most dangerous forms of the mineral. This marketing as 1960s KENT FILTERED CIGARETTES TV COMMERCIAL R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO. XD38614l 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 Mesothelioma Alert: 1950's Asbestos Riddled Cigarettes

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