Why are cigarettes radioactive?

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Or is it just smoking them? How did the radioactive elements come to be?

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Good answers here, but no one is addressing why the radioactive element that originates in fertilizer and the natural environment isn’t in food. [Polonium splashes up from the ground onto the tobacco’s sticky hairs](https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2012/05/24/tobacco-firms-have-failed-to-act-on-radioactivity-in-cigarettes-heres-why/) It isn’t really absorbed by the plant, it sticks to the exterior.

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