American-Made Cigarettes May Be More Cancerous, CDC Finds

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By COURTNEY HUTCHISON
ABC News Medical Unit
June 2, 2010

Smokers beware: "Made in the U.S.A" may mean a higher dose of a major carcinogen, according to new research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
No federal law requires tobacco companies to label their product's additives.

Smoking cigarettes greatly increases the risk of cancer no matter where in the world your smokes come from, but a CDC study finds that those puffing on American-made products may receive up to three times the level of carcinogenic nitrosamines as those smoking foreign brands.

Levels of nitrosamines, a major cancer-causing agent in cigarettes, absorbed by daily smokers in a 24-hour period were compared for 126 smokers in the U.S., Canada, U.K., and Australia.

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1. Not just that

Lots more polonium on the leaves that never got washed off before processing.