One-pack-a-day Kent smokers were inhaling over a billion clumps of asbestos fibers per year(1998)

Take for instance, Kent cigarettes’ Micronite filter, which was fully one-third asbestos. When Kent maker Lorillard introduced the filter in the early ’50s, the company gave it the zippy moniker, ”The Thinking Man’s Filter.“ A few years later, when it was discovered that asbestos causes cancer, Lorillard commissioned a pair of electron microscope studies to prove that Kent smokers weren’t sucking in asbestos along with their buttsmoke. The results: One-pack-a-day Kent smokers were inhaling over a billion clumps of asbestos fibers per year.

The brand is named after Herbert Kent

Kent is a brand of cigarettes. Viceroy (cigarette)s were the first to introduce cigarette filters in 1936. Kent's Micronite filter was introduced shortly after the publication of a series of articles in Reader's Digest in 1952 entitled "Cancer by the Carton," that scared American consumers into seeking out a filter brand at a time when most brands were filterless.

From March 1952 until at least May 1956, however, the Micronite filter in Kent cigarettes contained deadly blue asbestos. [1] Kent now uses charcoal filters (a form of activated carbon).

The brand is a propriety of British American Tobacco Nassi group.

The brand is named after Herbert Kent, a former executive at Lorillard Tobacco Company.

Kent has a nominal border with France

Kent (pronounced /kɛnt/) is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the River Thames estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of Medway. Kent has a nominal border with France halfway through the Channel Tunnel. Maidstone is its county town and historically Rochester and Canterbury have been accorded city status though only the latter still holds it.

Kent's location between London and the continent has led to its being in the front line of several conflicts, including the Battle of Britain during World War II. East Kent was named Hell Fire Corner during the conflict. England has relied on the county's ports to provide warships through much of the past 800 years; the Cinque Ports in the 12th–14th centuries and Chatham Dockyard in the 16th–20th centuries were of particular importance to the country's security. France can be seen clearly in fine weather from the iconic White Cliffs of Dover

Because of its abundance of orchards and hop gardens, Kent is widely known as "The Garden of England" — a name often applied when marketing the county or its produce, although other regions have wrongly tried to lay claim to the title.

Major industries in the north-west of Kent have included cement, papermaking, and aircraft construction, but these are now in decline. South and East Kent rely on tourism and agriculture. Coal mining has also played its part in Kent's industrial heritage.

We are pleased with the jury's finding that Kent cigarettes(2004)

Tobacco company Lorillard says it has won an individual smoker trial with claims related to the asbestos in the original Kent filter and claims related to tobacco use.

In a unanimous verdict, a Manhattan state court jury rejected plaintiffs' claims that Frank Gadaleta's lung cancer was caused by original Kent cigarettes, which were sold for four years in the 1950s, and also rejected claims that tobacco smoke from Kent cigarettes used by Gadaleta over several decades contributed to his disease.

Additionally, Gadaleta previously sued -- and settled with -- several asbestos producers, claiming that long-term occupational exposure to asbestos in the military and in the construction industry led to his lung cancer diagnosis in 2000.

"We are pleased with the jury's finding that Kent cigarettes are not responsible for the claimed injury," commented Ronald S. Milstein, Lorillard's vice president and general counsel. "The evidence overwhelmingly showed that plaintiff's occupational exposure to asbestos and not his smoking caused his lung cancer," he added. "The plaintiff failed to prove that tobacco smoke was a factor in causing his injury, because he quit smoking many years before he developed lung cancer."

Lorillard has successfully defended 13 lawsuits involving claims of injury from original Kent cigarettes, and has successfully defended three individual smoking and health lawsuits that have been tried in the New York courts, the company reported.

Original Kent cigarettes.