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A Lee Enterprises, Incorporated newspaper. Majority shareholder: David Hoffmann, Hoffmann Media Group.
Lawsuits continue over asbestos in Kent cigarette filters
- By Myron Levin Special to the News & Record
- Nov 1, 2013
- Nov 1, 2013
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- Margaret Baxter
Lorillard introduced Kent at a press conference at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria hotel, touting the Micronite filter’s “historic health protection” properties.
- Courtesy of the collection of Stanford University
Kent was Lorillard’s answer to the health scare of the early ’50s, when links between smoking and cancer first drew attention.
- Courtesy of the collection of Stanford University
A 1950s Kent ad touts the cigarette’s Micronite filter, which contained a deadly form of asbestos linked to mesothelioma.
- Courtesy of the collection of Stanford University
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By Myron Levin Special to the News & Record
GREENSBORO — It’s been 60 years since Greensboro-based Lorillard Tobacco created asbestos filters for its Kent cigarettes.
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In summary
THE PROBLEM
Kent was Lorillard Tobacco’s response to the health scare of the early 1950s, when the link between smoking and lung cancer drew wide attention. Lorillard touted the superiority of its filter, a blend of cotton, acetate, crepe paper and crocidolite asbestos. That asbestos is believed to have caused mes othelioma in factory workers and smokers.
THE PAYBACK Some 13 billion Kents were smoked from March 1952 until May 1956 using the “Micronite” filter containing a deadly form of asbestos. Sixty years later, the legal fallout continues. Lorillard settled roughly 90 cases in a recent two-year period. About 60 more cases are pending.
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Myron Levin wrote this article for FairWarning, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit investigative news organization focused on public health and safety issues.
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- Margaret Baxter
Lorillard introduced Kent at a press conference at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria hotel, touting the Micronite filter’s “historic health protection” properties.
- Courtesy of the collection of Stanford University
Kent was Lorillard’s answer to the health scare of the early ’50s, when links between smoking and cancer first drew attention.
- Courtesy of the collection of Stanford University
A 1950s Kent ad touts the cigarette’s Micronite filter, which contained a deadly form of asbestos linked to mesothelioma.
- Courtesy of the collection of Stanford University
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