That phosphate fertilizer contains natural radioactivity is a well established fact. Natural uranium accumulates in the phosphate rock…Uranium and its daughters are thus carried through the mining and manufacturing process and appear in the commercial product [the fertilizer used on tobacco plants]. Soils to which these products are applied show an increase in radioactivity over that naturally present and this increase is a function of the rate of application and the number of years that the fertilizers have been used….Thus, the smaller particles [of the fertilizer] which would be more likely to be made airborne by normal farming practices, would be expected to settle out on the tobacco leaves during the growing season and/or be more readily taken up by the plant root system. 210-Pb [radioactive lead] and 210-Po [radioactive polonium] are present in tobacco and smoke….

Unless you can prove Mr Papastefanou wrong, then you are not really in a position to say that this is lies.

Smoking does cause cancer and kill people. If this scares people into stopping smoking, then so what?

It’s not as though they are trying to scare us away from doing something healthy, good or useful.

“Radioactive Cigarettes”??? Please. I think the press must to be more responsable and search the facts before publishing headlines like that above. It scares…

Where this information come from? It seems terrorism comparing Chernobyl nuclear accident, a horroble tragedy by the away, to smoking. It seems the nazi tact using in the second war.

I´m a journalist myself. In my opinion, this aproach have nothing to do with the fact that smoking seriously harms. Everybody knows that.

Please, let´s quit smoking but with the straight informations ok? No more amazing stories!!!