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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

NICO is your friend https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NICO_Clean_Tobacco_Card

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

Adding more radiation to tobacco. Sure.

But slightly serious here. The actual mechanism of about 75% of tobacco related cancer, is the fact that tobacco leaves bioaccumulate natural radioactive elements from the soil.

If you smoke, you have radioactive lead and polonium in your lungs.