[HN Gopher] Asbestos Cigarette Filters
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Asbestos Cigarette Filters
Author : AndroidKitKat
Score : 30 points
Date : 2022-12-08 21:47 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.asbestos.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.asbestos.com)
| cwmoore wrote:
| Data structure and algorithm for inter-generational pattern
| recognition.
| ashton314 wrote:
| Sheesh.
|
| Be sure to keep your cigarettes safe in a case made of U-235--
| conveniently designed to fit right in your shirt pocket. Also be
| sure to try our cocaine-laced wine[^1] aged in fine lead bottles!
|
| [^1]: A real thing once, if I'm not mistaken.
| askvictor wrote:
| Indeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca_wine This is the
| drink that inspired Coca Cola when the prohibition meant wine
| was off the table (but cocaine was fine)
| quickthrower2 wrote:
| One could argue cocaine is less dangerous than alcohol.
| csours wrote:
| Uranium glass is definitely a real thing.
| detaro wrote:
| A pretty safe one though.
| BoxOfRain wrote:
| There's a certain irony in the fact a feature supposed to improve
| safety actually made an already dangerous thing massively more
| dangerous. That's got to be the most cancerous product ever
| brought to market that didn't outright irradiate its user.
| klipt wrote:
| > outright irradiate its user
|
| E.g. Radithor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radithor
| mrguyorama wrote:
| Well I don't think filtered cigarettes are actually a safety
| improvement in general. They were only ever a marketing gimmick
| jimnotgym wrote:
| > only one of these products was designed to be placed in a
| person's mouth while they inhaled
|
| Similar though were the WW2 gas masks that contained asbestos!
| stephc_int13 wrote:
| When I read about the toxic products and practices of the past, I
| can't help but wonder what the yet undetected ones are?
| woeirua wrote:
| PFAS and PFOA are going to be huge in the next few decades.
| Additionally, lots of pharmaceutical compounds are going to end
| up highly regulated in waste effluent.
| sideshowb wrote:
| Our local river now harbours antibiotic resistant bacteria
| thanks to all the meds used by chicken factories upstream
| phkahler wrote:
| From 1952 to 1956. Yawn.
| danielodievich wrote:
| This sounds really bad.
|
| I recently read the famous The Travels of Marco Polo by
| Rustichello da Pisa and remember calling this chapter out for my
| wife in delight of recognizing asbestos:
|
| _Everybody must be aware that it can be no animal 's nature to
| live in fire, seeing that every animal is composed of all the
| four elements. Now I, Marco Polo, had a Turkish acquaintance of
| the name of Zurficar, and he was a very clever fellow. And this
| Turk related to Messer Marco Polo how he had lived three years in
| that region on behalf of the Great Kaan, in order to procure
| those Salamanders for him. He said that the way they got them was
| by digging in that mountain till they found a certain vein. The
| substance of this vein was then taken and crushed, and when so
| treated it divides as it were into fibres of wool, which they set
| forth to dry. When dry, these fibres were pounded in a great
| copper mortar, and then washed, so as to remove all the earth and
| to leave only the fibres like fibres of wool. These were then
| spun, and made into napkins. When first made these napkins are
| not very white, but by putting them into the fire for a while
| they come out as white as snow. And so again whenever they become
| dirty they are bleached by being put in the fire._
|
| _Now this, and nought else, is the truth about the Salamander,
| and the people of the country all say the same. Any other account
| of the matter is fabulous nonsense. And I may add that they have
| at Rome a napkin of this stuff, which the Grand Kaan sent to the
| Pope to make a wrapper for the Holy Sudarium of Jesus Christ._
|
| https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Travels_of_Marco_Polo/Boo...
|
| You probably wouldn't want to handle Holy Sudarium of Jesus
| Christ either.
| hattmall wrote:
| I wonder if this was actually even problematic for them. My
| understanding is that asbestos is no worse than other rocks and
| silica formations when aerosolized it's just that asbestos was
| so useful it was much more heavily industrialized in a manner
| that was injurious to the lungs.
| _3u10 wrote:
| Nah, the Germans employed forced labor at asbestos mines
| during WW2. It's so bad that they gave them respirators.
|
| Imagine something being so toxic that you give the people
| you're trying to kill respirators so they don't die so
| quickly.
| nonrandomstring wrote:
| There's a subject area dedicated entirely to the study of things
| that are supposed to make things better, but make them worse.
|
| It is "Iatrogenics".
|
| It includes a surprising number of medicines, surgical procedures
| and interventions once thought to be "health-giving".
| DFHippie wrote:
| They should have put radium paint in the filter as well.
|
| "Have trouble finding your butts when you drop them on a dark
| night? With Kent Microlite cigarettes with radium this is a
| problem no more! Four out of five surviving doctors who smoke
| cigarettes recommend Kent Microlite cigarettes, now with radium!"
|
| "Kent Microlite cigarettes x-ray your lungs for you! With
| radium!"
|
| There's a lot of great copy in there.
| kleer001 wrote:
| That seems like somewhere betwee P. K. Dick and H. P.
| Lovecraft.
| vandahm wrote:
| Hey, it was the 1950s -- why not double down on cancer?
| ilvez wrote:
| I know they used asbestos to filter beer in 20th century. Was
| considered safe, since it didn't get in contact with air.
| Obviously abandoned practice nowerdays.
| schappim wrote:
| "Asbestos Cigarettes' Related Diseases... Crocidolite asbestos in
| Kent Micronite cigarettes is known to cause the following
| diseases: Lung cancer, Mesothelioma, Laryngeal cancer, Ovarian
| cancer, Asbestosis."
|
| Recent studies have linked asbestos exposure to an increased risk
| of ovarian cancer, particularly among people who used asbestos-
| contaminated talcum powder. However, if you're getting ovarian
| cancer from these cigarettes, chances are you're smoking them
| wrong.
| quickthrower2 wrote:
| Maybe the dangerous bit is when you stub them out. Turning
| bonded into fibrous airborne asbestos
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