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This smoking pipe made from asbestos (media.piefed.social)

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[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think this can be improved by adding Kents famous micronite filter.

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The "Micronite filter" in Kent cigarettes contained a mixture of crimped crêpe paper and compressed blue asbestos, the most carcinogenic type of asbestos.

[–] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 days ago

Cancer diagnosis any% hasn't been the same since