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Radioactive polonium is the really worry with tobacco use.


Not sure why I was downvoted, look here: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonium#Tobacco

Edit: I stand corrected. Thank you


It's not entirely true. Even though the vast majority of tobacco-related cancer deaths may be caused by polonium, cancer deaths are still only around a third (iirc) of total tobacco deaths.


Compare the 12,000 at the Wikipedia link to the 1.6 million here:

http://www.who.int/cancer/prevention/en/

From those numbers, the polonium is not a primary concern.




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