<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/53651c4a-0517-436c-b544-0dad75886a42/3EAD07DB-1628-4B91-B238-43A5B1B70A21/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.prwatch.org/node/7694" href="http://www.prwatch.org/node/7694" style="font-size: 11px;">www.prwatch.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.prwatch.org/node/7694"><H1 class="title">Tobacco Companies Hid Information on Radioactive Polonium</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.prwatch.org/node/7694"><P>Tobacco manufacturers discovered over 40 years ago that radioactive <A title="reference on polonium-210" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Radioactive_Lead_and_Polonium-201_in_tobacco_smoke">polonium-210</A> exists in cigarettes and tobacco smoke, and spent decades working to remove it, according to a new <A target="_blank" title="reference on study" href="http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/9/1643">study</A> published in the <I><A title="reference on American Journal of Public Health" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Journal_of_Public_Health">American Journal of Public Health</A></I>. The companies tried to remove polonium -- a naturally-occurring, alpha particle-emitting constituent of the fertilizers and soil used to grow tobacco -- by creating special filters, washing the tobacco leaf and genetically altering tobacco plants, but ultimately failed. Instead of coming clean, the companies kept their internal research on polonium and information about their unsuccessful efforts to remove it secret. They didn't want to heighten public awareness of polonium in cigarettes. Polonium-210 is the lethal radioactive substance that was used to poison Russian dissident <A target="_blank" title="reference on Alexander Litvinenko" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko">Alexander Litvinenko</A> in London in 2006. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3EAD07DB-1628-4B91-B238-43A5B1B70A21/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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