: A brand name of cigarettes in the 1950s, Kent cigarettes, made use of exceptionally poisonous asbestos in their filters.
A photo of a cigarette having blue asbestos in its filter is frequently shared on numerous social media sites networks, consisting of Reddit:
These pictures commonly recognize the thing imagined as a Kent cigarette with a “micronite filter.” Micronite filters, which make use of crocidolite asbestos, were specifically made use of in Kent cigarettes from 1952 to 1956. Crocidolite is a blue asbestos matching the viral pictures shared on social media sites. Somewhat perversely, these asbestos filters were marketed as a health and wellness attribute in the 1950s:
(The Des Moines Register Sept 27 1953)
Crocidolite, we currently understand, is just one of one of the most harmful kinds of asbestos to which a human can be revealed, partially since it is very easy to breathe in. As
