By: red We are all aware that cigarettes – just like cigars, e-cigarettes, vapes and whatever else is available on the market – are not exactly beneficial to health. Smoking can cause a whole range of extremely unpleasant diseases, from impotence to heart attack to lung cancer. But did you know that tobacco is radioactive? Strong radiation Smokers radiate. Just not in a good way. "A heavy smoker (20 to 40 cigarettes a day) gives his bronchi the same amount of radiation per year as would be produced by 250 X-rays of the lungs," explains Matthias Risch, Professor of Physics, Environmental Technology and History of Natural Sciences at Augsburg University of Applied Sciences. "Polonium-210 is an... [Read more]