Tobacco contains extremely toxic Polonium-210 radioactive material

According to Australian Radio, the amount of radiation Polonium-210 in tobacco causes about 2% of tobacco deaths, equivalent to about a few thousand deaths in the US alone.

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The radioactive metal in tobacco is polonium-210. This substance was discovered by spouses Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898. Polonium-210 is extremely toxic (about 250 million times more toxic than cyanuya) and is often found in natural uranium.

Developed countries use organic fertilizers made from apatite, natural rocks contain uranium and it decomposes into radioactive polonium-210, penetrating into tobacco plants through roots and leaves.

When tobacco burns, it reaches a temperature of 600-800 degrees Celsius, higher than the melting temperature of polonium. Molten polonium sticks to tiny particles in cigarette smoke and then settles in the respiratory and human lungs.

Polonium-210 has a short half-life of 138 days. It is a powerful radioactive substance and releases alpha particles into surrounding tissues. In addition to radioactive polonium-210, cigarette smoke also contains many chemicals that are thought to cause cancer.

Tobacco was found to contain radioactive polonium about half a century ago. However, tobacco companies have been hiding this information ever since. When they realized there was radioactive polonium in cigarettes, they started a secret internal research program. They even found a way to significantly reduce the amount of polonium in cigarette smoke.

At the RJ Reynolds tobacco company, the "giant" in the tobacco industry, an internal report said: "The elimination of polonium radioactivity in cigarettes will lose the advantage in trade." .

People smoke about 6 trillion cigarettes a year, enough to create a long rope from the Earth to the Sun and vice versa. By 2020, tobacco will kill about 10 million people every year. Tobacco has killed 100 million people in the 20th century and without reducing smoking, in the 21st century, about 1 billion people will die from tobacco.