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Science 9 June 1967:
Vol. 156. no. 3780, pp. 1375 - 1376
DOI: 10.1126/science.156.3780.1375
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Polonium-210: Removal from Smoke by Resin Filters

Erich W. Bretthauer 1 and Stuart C. Black 1

1 Southwestern Radiological Health Laboratory, U.S. Public Health Service, P.O. Box 684, Las Vegas, Nevada

Use of a mixed ion-exchange resin as a filter for cigarettes markedly reduces both the total amount of polonium-210 in mainstream smoke and the picocuries per milligram of smoke. This procedure effectively minimizes exposure of the lungs of smokers to alpha irradiation.


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