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December 12th, 2006 at 11:09 am

The always-reliable New York Times on tobacco

» by Ted Frank

If you were ever so worried about the report by plaintiffs’ for-hire expert Robert Proctor’s NYT criticism of cigarettes for containing that trendy isotope, Polonium-210, Australian blogger C. Magee notes that a single banana is 9000 times more radioactive than a cigarette (via Hutchinson), concluding “There are plenty of sound reasons to discourage smoking; we don’t need to discard them for sensationalized scare tactics.”

Update: Walter beat me to this on POL last week, finding two other blogger refutations.

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