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Innovation Isn't Always the Answer Cigarettes & Asbestos Filters: 2 Terrible Things Worse Together In 1952, Kent released Micronite cigarettes with filters made of blue asbestos. Marketed as kind on the lungs and a taste improvement, the so called safety feature backfired, causing twice as much cancer Kent Micronite Asbestos Filter Cigarettes 5 Pack Partially Flickr In 1952, as fears grew over the connection between smoking and cancer, Kent cigarettes introduced an asbestos filter that was supposed to make smoking safer. The idea sounds almost unreal now. A 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
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