kent cigarette asbestos filter 1950s branded cigarettes with filter. : r/interestingasfuck Cross-section of an asbestos-laden cigarette

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 The Filter Fraud The Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society 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 R.J. Reynolds Haunted by Deadly Legacy of Kent Asbestos Filters 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 Kent Cigarette Box, Michigan State Medical Society, 1963 National Museum of American History

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