Why it is in a Company's Best Interest to Reduce Environmental Waste

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Even today tobacco is laced with nuclear waste (polonium) just so it's a little cheaper to grow.

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It isn't from nuclear waste. The polonium contamination in tobacco is caused by the use of the mineral apatite in fertilizer. Apatite starves the tobacco plants of nitrogen and gives them a distinct flavor.

Unfortunately, most apatite is naturally contaminated by uranium, and wherever you have uranium, you have polonium. The polonium easily becomes airborne and gets lodged into the structures of the tobacco plant.