I smoked cigarettes for 17 years, and quit years ago. I was lucky, but it's a gamble that I shouldn't have taken. Don't smoke or chew tobacco, and you'll be better off. That we know is 100 percent true. They grow tobacco with radioactive element called polonium in the soil, and that's what is causing the cancer. If you don't want to die, then get scared - it's the smartest thing you can do.

http://www.acsa.net/HealthAlert/lungcancer.html

"Lung cancer rates increased significantly during most of the 1900's (6). Its no coincidence that between 1938 and 1960, the level of polonium 210 in American tobacco tripled commensurate with the increased use of chemical fertilizers and Persistant Organic Pollutant (POP) accumulation(7)".

http://biohazard1780.tripod.com/id46.html