radiation deaths curiously absent in millions
By ROBERT N. PROCTOR
The tobacco industry has been aware at least since the 1960s that cigarettes contain significant levels of polonium, the same radioactive substance used last week to poison a former K.G.B. agent.
``I must give him his due. He has considerably cretinized me.'' Lautréamont
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