By the late 1950s, sales of filtered cigarettes had overtaken those of unfiltered cigarettes
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It said Kents Micronite filter offered the greatest health protection in cigarette history, and was designed for The one out of every three smokers who is unusually sensitive to tobacco tars and nicotine. In its advertising, Lorillard said its quest for the new filter ended in an atomic energy plant, where the makers of Kent found a material being used to filler air of microscopic impurities Another ad described Micronite as a pure, dust-free, completely harmless material. In reality, the dust-free, completely harmless material contained crocidolite, also called African blue asbestos for its origin and bluish color and regarded by many experts as the most hazardous of the six asbestos minerals
[DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar] 147.Reynolds P.R., Kasteler S.D., Schmitt R.E., Hoidal J.R