“That old gem” is off Cancer Research UK’s web site and includes the word possibly
I’m not saying its untrue but its easy to put the word ‘possibly’ in any statment however remote the possibility is. As I said, I believe it to be scaremongering and, if that statistic was accurate, nobody would be able to even go near the horrible stuff.
Talking of cigarettes…
In the early 1950s, the P. Lorillard Tobacco Company sold over 13 billion cigarettes that contained a type of asbestos called ‘crocidolite’ within their filters. The original Kent brand contained 10mg of asbestos material in each cigarette. Therefore, original Kent smokers inhaled more than 131 crocidolite fibers in each pack of cigarettes.