cigarettes with asbestos filter Remember When Big Tobacco Sold as the “Greatest Health Protection”? – Mother Jones In 1952, Kent released “Micronite”

In 1952, Kent released Micronite cigarettes with filters made of blue asbestos. Marketed as kind on the lungs and a taste improvement, the so called safety feature backfired, causing twice as much cancer 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 Asbestspotter Asbestos in Kent Cigarette Filters: A Shocking Past Who Made That Cigarette Filter? The New York Times

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