Or is it just smoking them? How did the radioactive elements come to be?
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Tobacco is grown with fertilizer that naturally contains Radon. Radon decays into Polonium-210.
Polonium-210 is an Alpha-emitter. alpha radiation is normally blocked by even the least of shielding and can’t your insides when it is outside you.
Smoking tobacco and getting polonium-210 particles in your lungs, will allow alpha particles to bombard your tissue from the inside unshielded by clothes or skin.
This slightly increases your chance of getting lung cancer in addition to the other ways that smoking can give you cancer.
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