Radioactive Smoke
Notes: -people worldwide smoke almost
six trillion cigarettes a year, and each one delivers a small amount
of polonium 210 to the lungs. Puff by puff, the poison builds up to
the equivalent radiation dosage of 300 chest x-rays a year for a
person who smokes one and a half packs a day
-The tobacco industry has known for decades how to remove a
dangerous isotope from cigarettes but has done nothing about it.
The government now has the power to force a change
-In June 2009 President Barack Obama signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act into law. The legislation brings tobacco for the first time under the jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Ad- ministration, allowing the agency to regulate certain components of cigarettes. Forcing the industry to finally remove polonium from cigarette smoke would be one of the most straightforward ways to start making cigarettes less deadly.
-in the first half of the 1960s the health effects of radiation, and in particular of radioac- tive fallout, were very much on the minds of scientists—as well as on the minds of most other people. At the time, radiochemist Vilma R. Hunt and her colleagues at the Harvard School of Pub- lic Health were developing a technique to measure very low lev- els of radium and polonium, the two elements discovered by Pierre and Marie Curie in 1898.
- Because of the way our air- ways branch into bronchi, bronchioles and alveoli, the radioiso- topes settle and concentrate at the points of bifurcation. There they form “hot spots” of radioactivity, emitting alpha particles.
-• Add chemicals to tobacco so polonium 210 does not vaporize and get inhaled • Switch to low-uranium fertilizer • Wash leaves after harvest • Use ion-exchange cigarette filters to capture polonium • Genetically engineer the tobacco plant to have “hairless” leaves
-never oublitized using the chemicals
six trillion cigarettes a year, and each one delivers a small amount
of polonium 210 to the lungs. Puff by puff, the poison builds up to
the equivalent radiation dosage of 300 chest x-rays a year for a
person who smokes one and a half packs a day
-The tobacco industry has known for decades how to remove a
dangerous isotope from cigarettes but has done nothing about it.
The government now has the power to force a change
-In June 2009 President Barack Obama signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act into law. The legislation brings tobacco for the first time under the jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Ad- ministration, allowing the agency to regulate certain components of cigarettes. Forcing the industry to finally remove polonium from cigarette smoke would be one of the most straightforward ways to start making cigarettes less deadly.
-in the first half of the 1960s the health effects of radiation, and in particular of radioac- tive fallout, were very much on the minds of scientists—as well as on the minds of most other people. At the time, radiochemist Vilma R. Hunt and her colleagues at the Harvard School of Pub- lic Health were developing a technique to measure very low lev- els of radium and polonium, the two elements discovered by Pierre and Marie Curie in 1898.
- Because of the way our air- ways branch into bronchi, bronchioles and alveoli, the radioiso- topes settle and concentrate at the points of bifurcation. There they form “hot spots” of radioactivity, emitting alpha particles.
-• Add chemicals to tobacco so polonium 210 does not vaporize and get inhaled • Switch to low-uranium fertilizer • Wash leaves after harvest • Use ion-exchange cigarette filters to capture polonium • Genetically engineer the tobacco plant to have “hairless” leaves
-never oublitized using the chemicals
Summary
The topic of this article was cigarretes and hy they are bad for our health. I read that 6 trillion cigarettes are smoked a year. That is a awful large amount of cigarettes. The bad thing about cigarretes is that each one releases polonium 210 to the lungs. This is not good for peoples health because it is poison and it can affect someone very badly.
six trillion cigarettes a year, and each one delivers a small amount
of polonium 210 to the lungs. Puff by puff, the poison builds up to
the equivalent radiation dosage of 300 chest x-rays a year for a
person who smokes one and a half packs a day
-The tobacco industry has known for decades how to remove a
dangerous isotope from cigarettes but has done nothing about it.
The government now has the power to force a change
-In June 2009 President Barack Obama signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act into law. The legislation brings tobacco for the first time under the jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Ad- ministration, allowing the agency to regulate certain components of cigarettes. Forcing the industry to finally remove polonium from cigarette smoke would be one of the most straightforward ways to start making cigarettes less deadly.
-in the first half of the 1960s the health effects of radiation, and in particular of radioac- tive fallout, were very much on the minds of scientists—as well as on the minds of most other people. At the time, radiochemist Vilma R. Hunt and her colleagues at the Harvard School of Pub- lic Health were developing a technique to measure very low lev- els of radium and polonium, the two elements discovered by Pierre and Marie Curie in 1898.
- Because of the way our air- ways branch into bronchi, bronchioles and alveoli, the radioiso- topes settle and concentrate at the points of bifurcation. There they form “hot spots” of radioactivity, emitting alpha particles.
-• Add chemicals to tobacco so polonium 210 does not vaporize and get inhaled • Switch to low-uranium fertilizer • Wash leaves after harvest • Use ion-exchange cigarette filters to capture polonium • Genetically engineer the tobacco plant to have “hairless” leaves
-never oublitized using the chemicals
The topic of this article was cigarretes and hy they are bad for our health. I read that 6 trillion cigarettes are smoked a year. That is a awful large amount of cigarettes. The bad thing about cigarretes is that each one releases polonium 210 to the lungs. This is not good for peoples health because it is poison and it can affect someone very badly.
six trillion cigarettes a year, and each one delivers a small amount
of polonium 210 to the lungs. Puff by puff, the poison builds up to
the equivalent radiation dosage of 300 chest x-rays a year for a
person who smokes one and a half packs a day
-The tobacco industry has known for decades how to remove a
dangerous isotope from cigarettes but has done nothing about it.
The government now has the power to force a change
-In June 2009 President Barack Obama signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act into law. The legislation brings tobacco for the first time under the jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Ad- ministration, allowing the agency to regulate certain components of cigarettes. Forcing the industry to finally remove polonium from cigarette smoke would be one of the most straightforward ways to start making cigarettes less deadly.
-in the first half of the 1960s the health effects of radiation, and in particular of radioac- tive fallout, were very much on the minds of scientists—as well as on the minds of most other people. At the time, radiochemist Vilma R. Hunt and her colleagues at the Harvard School of Pub- lic Health were developing a technique to measure very low lev- els of radium and polonium, the two elements discovered by Pierre and Marie Curie in 1898.
- Because of the way our air- ways branch into bronchi, bronchioles and alveoli, the radioiso- topes settle and concentrate at the points of bifurcation. There they form “hot spots” of radioactivity, emitting alpha particles.
-• Add chemicals to tobacco so polonium 210 does not vaporize and get inhaled • Switch to low-uranium fertilizer • Wash leaves after harvest • Use ion-exchange cigarette filters to capture polonium • Genetically engineer the tobacco plant to have “hairless” leaves
-never oublitized using the chemicals