# Still support nuke power plants?

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**Created:** [March 14, 2011, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-support-nuke-power-plants/574647 "2011-03-14T11:56:32Z")\
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> [@Whack-a-Mole](#):
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> … cigarette smoking is one of the biggest radiation risks a person can willingly expose themselves to. ([cite](http://www.epa.gov/radtown/tobacco.html))

Of course it is. You are inhaling all the radioactive fallout that lands on the leaves, and putting directly into your lungs, where it does the most damage. Before WWII smoking cigs didn’t cause cancer like it does now.

Cancer rates spiked after WWII, especially the kind that kills you. But good luck trying to prove it had anything to do with radioactive fall out.

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