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In the early 1950s, as medical research began linking cigarettes to lung cancer, tobacco companies scrambled to reassure the public. Kent Cigarettes, a brand owned by Lorillard, introduced its so called Micronite Filter 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 The dark side of marketing seemingly Light cigarettes: successful images and failed fact Tobacco Control Micronite Filter The Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society The Filter Fraud The Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society Jurors award $1.4 million to terminally ill man who smoked asbestos laden cigarettes in the 1950s Ross Feller Casey, LLP

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