re: What all was going on behind the Alexander Litvinenko murder?

So he was the first person to be killed using radioactive polonium. Uncomfortably read these following two paragraphs. No longer a smoker but shite.

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Tobacco
Polonium-210 in tobacco contributes to many of the cases of lung cancer worldwide.

The presence of polonium in tobacco smoke has been known since the early 1960s. Some of the world's biggest tobacco firms researched ways to remove the substance—to no avail—over a 40-year period but never published the results.

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