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by irthomasthomas 2307 days ago
This was posted on HN recently.... Tobacco smoke contains Polonium-210, the same stuff used to murder the Russian spy Litvinenko. A pack and half a day exposes the smoker to the same amount of radiation as 300 chest xrays a year. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2509609/

So someone just needs to blow some vape on a Geiger counter to test its radiation levels. I suspect the vape will be radiation free, as it doesn't need to contain the extra chemicals that lend tobacco its flavour.

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Wtf, radionuclides aren't flavorings they're concentrated from soil by plants!