Even more evidence of the Tobacco Industry's deceitfulness was revealed in an article published in USA Today and the Sydney Morning Herald. Turns out that as early as the 1960s the Tobacco Industry began investigating the effects of radioactive particles called polonium-201, which were found to be absorbed by tobacco leaves and inhaled by smokers in cigarette smoke. The Industry's own internal research, evidenced in industry secret documents released by the Master Settlement Agreement in 1998, confirmed that the smoke was radioactive and carcinogenic, but hid that evidence from the public, and continued to make billions of dollars from the production, marketing and sale of a product that it knew caused death in those who used it exactly as it was meant to be used. The rate of death linked to just this one lethal ingredient in cigarettes? 120-138 deaths for every 1000 smokers over a 25 year period.

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