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UK: pulling the polonium ad
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  1. David Simpson
  1. d.simpson@iath.org

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    As news that Russian former secret agent Alexander Litvinenko had been poisoned with polonium 210 swept round the world in November, many great minds in public health thought alike. Why not build on publicity about this dangerous element to tell smokers that polonium 210 is one of the many and various poisons they inhale with every puff of their cigarettes?

    As it happened, Cancer Research UK, as part of a health promotion partnership with the British government, had just been …

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