This page is a compilation of the info I’ve located on the most insidious ingredient in tobacco, the radioactive element Plutonium 210, as well links to info on that well obscured tobacco ingredient.

Some of the sites I've pulled these statistics from are wordy to say the least. I did my best not to loose anything in translation. All of the sites are listed below as you may verify the validity of this information. Most of the sites I found referenced the New England Journal of Medicine and these articles particular NEJM 307(5):309-313 and NEJM 1965;273:1343-1351

The facts:

Plutonium was less than 30 years ago used to make Nuclear weapons.

A 1 pack a day smoker in 1 years time is exposed to radiation equivalent to 1000 chest x-rays. Another study I found estimated this number at 300 chest x-rays per year when adjusted to account for the fact that approximately 75% of the radiation is exhaled. That exhaled radiation is breathed by others as second hand smoke and even outlasts the second hand smoke staying in the smokers environment settling in with the dust on a smokers shelves to be breathed later. Though this little known fact about cigarettes was first documented in 1964 it has received in its near 40 years of understanding no significant coverage by network media in ANY NATION!

The government, the media and corporations worldwide are united in the cause of killing their slaves as soon as their slaves outlive their usefulness as tools of production. I make this statement though didn't locate an authority online that told me this is so. I came to this deduction on my own when faced with the facts regarding this and other government/corporate/media actions. Consider that the simple act of making people aware of the high levels of radiation in tobacco 40 years ago would likely have saved worldwide 35 million people from early and grueling deaths. Network news is too busy exposing plumbers for overcharging to dedicate any effort to exposing this worldwide genocide of working class people. If our government was representative of us, as per the constitution they're supposed to be, they obviously wouldn't have let this happen. Pack a day smokers are exposed to radiation 12 times higher than is allowed by any government regulation. In other words workers who dispose of nuclear waste are exposed to at least 12 times less radiation than a pack a day smoker. Corporate motives are clear, requiring no explanation. In smoking cigarettes you support these purveyors of genocide.

Some might say "Well they told us that smoking cigarettes could lead to health problems..." What they didn't tell you is what really would've motivated you to quit though. Beyond advising simply that there are high levels of radiation in tobacco to be completely upfront with you they would have to have told you:

1) Cigarettes are a form of population control.

2) In part the purpose of killing people at near retirement age is to free resources that can be dedicated to production to expand the wealth of the wealthy. In part those "resources" are the people that would be caring for their elderly parents. With their parents neatly disposed of they are free to neglect their children and dedicate their lives to their "work". Which amounts to nothing more than submitting control to the powers that be. Thus enabling them to continue to control the entirety of the population through popularization of unhealthy lifestyles via the particularly influential mass media.

3) To undermine the importance of family and life in general. Working for these genocidal maniacs, purchasing their ill-begotten products even while they take part in offing your parents, addicting your children and generally wreaking havoc throughout society has the effect of debasing ones self worth. This is so regardless of whether a person aknowledges recognition of this environment or lives in denial of their situation while subconsciously aware. To claim you are fully unaware of this is blasphemy.

All of the below sources on this topic were produced by research scientists with doctorates. 9 of the sources sited were used to craft the windy and wordy article on radiation in tobacco in Erowids Tobacco vaults. Source #8 was taken from an article posted online by a UMass Amherst Representative.

1. Little JB, Radford EP Jr, McCombs HL, Hunt VR. Distribution of polonium-210 in pulminary tissues of cigarette smokers. NEJM 1965; 273:1343-1351

2. Radford EP Jr, Hunt VR. Polonium-210: a volatile radioelement in cigarettes. Science. 1964; 143:247-249

3. Holtzman RB, Ilcewicz FH. Lead 210 and Po210 in tissues of cigarette smokers. Science. 1966; 153:1259-1260

4. Blanchard RL. Concentrations of Pb210 and Po210 in human soft tissues. Health Phys. 1967; 13:625-632.

5. Hill CR. Polonium 210 in man. Nature. 1965; 208:423-428

6. Cohen BS, Eisenbud M, Harley NH. Measurement of the alpha radioactivity on the mucosal surface of the human bronchial tree. Health Phys. 1980; 619-32

7. Auerbach O, Stout AP, Hammond EC, Garfinkel L. Changes in bronchial epithelium in relation to cigarette smoking and in relation to lung cancer. NEJM 1961; 265:253-67

8. Mertell EA. Radioactivity of tobacco trichomes and insoluble cigarette smoke particles. Nature. 1974; 249:215-7.

9. Radford EP, Martell EA. Polonium 210/Lead 210 ratios as an index of residence times of insoluble particles from cigarette smoke in bronchial epithelium. In: Walton WH, ed. Inhaled Particles. IV. Part 2, Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1977:567-580

10. Little JB, McGrandy RB, Kennedy AR. Interactions between polonium 210 alpha radiation, benzo(a)pyrene, and 0.9% NaCl instillations in the induction of experimental lung cancer. Cancer Res. 1978; 38:1929-1935.