filtered cigarettes invented A word or two about the cigarette filter

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

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Exhibit: When cigarette filters were made of asbestos – The Cancer History Project

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Cigarette Filters

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In 1952, as public concern grew over the link between smoking and lung cancer, Kent cigarettes introduced what they called a “safer” alternative: the Micronite filter. What they didn't tell smokers? That

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💡 Did You Know? The original cigarette filters were made of cork! 🍂 The iconic textured pattern we see on filters today is actually inspired by that vintage cork look

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Filter as Fraud – The Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society

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Kent cigarettes introduced micronite filter

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