[ RadSafe ] Interesting Proposed Cigarette ProductWarningLabels

[parthasarathy k s]

Dear Franz,

I  wrote  a few articles in daily newspapers on Polonium in cigarettes. KGB spy 
episode also was used to highlight the dangers of polonium in cigarettes.

Dose due to polonium is not keeping many radiation safety professionals away 
from cigarettes. I recall that during the 10th Congress of the International 
Radiation Protection Association (IRPA) at Hiroshima the "smoking room" kept for 
delegates was always fully occupied.

Regards
Parthasarathy




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Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Interesting Proposed Cigarette ProductWarningLabels

Corinne and RADSAFErs,

I can confirm that in all member states of the European Union it is compulsory 
to put warnings in bold letters at about half of the available area on the 
cigarette package. There are no pictures, but a black frame as is customary at 
death announcements. The text is much more strictly forward than the ones 
proposed in the USA - "Smoking kills" and not "Smoking might kill", "Smoking 
causes coronary infarction and stroke" - not "maybe". In Brazil I remember about 
ten years ago huge advertising along the main roads like "Smoking makes you 
impxteyt", garnished by a very pretty girl....

I always joke with smoking collegues, whether they have already reached their 
daily intake of Po-210. So I was also thinking of a possible warning about the 
deadly radioactive substance Po-210, additional with a remark that the former 
KGB spy Litvinenko had been deadly poisoned with exactly this radionuclide. I do 
not seriously expect that this would help to reduce smoking.

Best regards,

Franz 

Franz Schoenhofer, PhD, MinRat
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Austria
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