In tobacco found the strongest radioactive element - polonium-210, said the American scientists from Stanford University. Experts argue that the tobacco companies knew about the content of radioactive elements in tobacco and tobacco smoke, but intends to conceal that fact. The major tobacco manufacturers discovered that polonium part of her tobacco and tobacco smoke for more than 40 years, and tried unsuccessfully to withdraw this radioactive element of their products, the researchers reported. They also report that the tobacco companies deliberately hide use this information in order to avoid a greater awareness among the people about the radiation contained in cigarettes. Experts believe that the desire to hide the data, so large that to gloss over the tobacco companies continue this problem, even if it was found that the concentration of radioactive elements in cigarette smoke two or three times the original estimates. The results are published in the Swiss edition Temps. According to the World Health Organization, the diseases associated with smoking, take the life of one person every six seconds, killing an average of 5.4 million people per year. As for Ukraine, it is smoked in second place in the world in the number of smokers per capita more than 2,500 cigarettes per year, or 7 per day.
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