In 1952, amidst concerns linking smoking to cancer, Kent cigarettes introduced an asbestos filter as a measure to safeguard its smokers. With each inhalation, asbestos fibers from the filter made their way into the lungs of smokers.
In 2013, a man locked his head in a cage to try quit smoking. Ibrahim Yücel from Turkey took the drastic measure to quit after other methods failed. A life long smoker Ibrahim was terrified the cigarettes were going to prematurely end his life after his father, also a life long…