It was made with Bolivian blue asbestos.
I just found it fascinating, and this was the first I'd heard about the lawsuit.

http://www.greensboro.com/news/local_news/lawsuits-continue-over-asbestos-in-kent-cigarette-filters/article_845c79ce-e028-5a14-a521-5a5fc66e0e4a.html

GREENSBORO — It's been 60 years since Greensboro-based Lorillard Tobacco created asbestos filters for its Kent cigarettes.
The company said in its high-profile introduction of the cigarettes that the filters would offer "the greatest health protection in cigarette history."
But the patented "Micronite" filter contained a particularly deadly form of asbestos.
Smokers puffed their way through 13 billion Kents from March 1952 until May 1956, when Lorillard changed the filter design.

I don't remember 'micronite' very vividly.  But I remember the brand's theme-song... a quasi British Military march thing.

But the asbestos-crusading law-firms are the worst of the worst...

Those billions were 'set aside' 40-years-ago.  The 'crusaders' have been milking it ever since, with all manner of gimmicky gambits.

It's all based-on Corporate Mankind intentionally attempting to murder innocent civilians.  Ridiculous.

I think the reason it's so vivid in my mind, was reruns in the early 60s, like how Chesterfield and Rod Serling went hand in hand.
Maybe I saw shows in rerun that were embedded with these commercials.
But you're right, anything that had asbestos, was marked with a bulls eye by the vampires.

They tried that shit here where I live, the indigenous rock of Eldorado county is serpentine, a very low grade form of jade, better known as George town jade, not really jade, but laced with asbestos in it's raw form.
The Ca EPA tried to force us to remove all road rock from our private roads, like a drunk walking into a bar and threatening to kick everyone's ass, the State got their ass stomped, they shut up, quietly sought compromise so as to retain some form of dignity.

Point is, there was no money to be made, so all this BS fell apart.
About a mile away is a local quarry where we all get our road rock, of course it's full of raw asbestos, but the quarry borders a creek and popular equestrian trails owned by the forest service.
There is a short section, about 20" long stretch of road that leaves the main road and crosses the creek to the staging area, bare ground, or rather rock, since this area has little plant life due to no soil, because of topography, kind of like Reno on the Eastern side of the Sierra effect.

Well, this short stretch that has never required gravel, because it's already rock, was graveled by USFS, at a cost of 20 grand, because they went to a limestone quarry miles away to bring in nonnative rock.

Talk about stupid....

That's preposterous.  I've racked my brain to think of any similar example of environmental PC land-management silliness, and I can't.  What kind of tax-funded loser worries about stuff like that?  Most 'trails' are ancient deer-trails. 

Quote from: kit saginaw on July 07, 2015, 08:58:52 AM
That's preposterous.  I've racked my brain to think of any similar example of environmental PC land-management silliness, and I can't.  What kind of tax-funded loser worries about stuff like that?  Most 'trails' are ancient deer-trails.

FAWN, Sierra club sued my County to the point they didn't breathe without their permission.
It's so bad up here, that the job I used to do as law enforcement took two of us to patrol the entire forest, from George town to lake Tahoe, now they have 50 working in the summer looking for eco violators.

Meaning they watch for horses, quads, or any form of vehicle traveling off road.
It's why I went to Idaho looking for land, and I'm a Ca Native, I love this state, I hate the Marxists!

Unbelievable.  Sounds like another eco money-making scheme.  How did quadding come to be an 'environmental crime' ?  Horse-riding too, for that matter...  California is nuts.  Granted, littering is almost a thing of the past everywhere, but I can just imagine the penalties if California catches somebody doing it.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot these...  the Micronite Filter...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0KwpKM76cA

I didn't recall that ad, but this is the one I was thinking of:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33fSU2Q_ZUY

appallingly politically incorrect   

Even the later version of Kents were so tasteless that you had to rip off that Micronite filter, just to taste the smoke. Winstons and Marlboros were dry but at least they had a taste. Kents? Fuggedaboudit.

Quote from: kit saginaw on July 07, 2015, 08:48:39 PM
Unbelievable.  Sounds like another eco money-making scheme.  How did quadding come to be an 'environmental crime' ?  Horse-riding too, for that matter...  California is nuts.  Granted, littering is almost a thing of the past everywhere, but I can just imagine the penalties if California catches somebody doing it.

appallingly politically incorrect 

The claim went under erosion, which lead to interference of fish spawning habitats.
Yes, back to fish again, and there was no room to prove otherwise, because the tiniest amount of mud in a stream can damage the fragile ecosystedm.

Yes they went judge shopping, and yes, we have the Ninth Circus, and yes, we were doomed from the start.
Rational reasoning went out the window in this state when the left stole the legal system.
No, it's not Ca or the people, but a small group of communists Hell bent on destroying the US, one County at a time.

Quote from: quiller on July 07, 2015, 11:48:45 PM
Even the later version of Kents were so tasteless that you had to rip off that Micronite filter, just to taste the smoke. Winstons and Marlboros were dry but at least they had a taste. Kents? Fuggedaboudit.

Yes, I remember, they tasted like Terrytons, another flavor enhanced cardboard passed off as tobacco.

Quote from: Solar on July 08, 2015, 07:01:17 AM
Yes, I remember, they tasted like Terrytons, another flavor enhanced cardboard passed off as tobacco.

Old Gold and Parliament were just like it. I keep thinking there was a Sanno brand in that group as well. Then came those skinny women's smokes like Virginia Slims. (*hurl*)

Quote from: quiller on July 08, 2015, 05:59:07 PM
Old Gold and Parliament were just like it. I keep thinking there was a Sanno brand in that group as well. Then came those skinny women's smokes like Virginia Slims. (*hurl*)

That reminds me of a really skinny friend of mine in 1970. He had a really strange shaped head, long from front to back and half as wide as a normal head, and yes, he smoked Virginia Slims 100's, made him look like a blow fish with a straw in its mouth.

I tried them, burned way to hot and fast.

Quote from: Solar on July 08, 2015, 06:23:34 PM


That reminds me of a really skinny friend of mine in 1970. He had a really strange shaped head, long from front to back and half as wide as a normal head, and yes, he smoked Virginia Slims 100's, made him look like a blow fish with a straw in its mouth.

I tried them, burned way to hot and fast.

Or those cigars rolled like cigarettes. Winchesters? One pack, you pack up green for a week. Even Kools couldn't do that (though they came close).

Quote from: quiller on July 08, 2015, 07:00:12 PM
Or those cigars rolled like cigarettes. Winchesters? One pack, you pack up green for a week. Even Kools couldn't do that (though they came close).

I think they were Winchesters.  I wanted to say Backwoods Smokes. 

Quote from: Solar on July 08, 2015, 06:23:34 PM


That reminds me of a really skinny friend of mine in 1970. He had a really strange shaped head, long from front to back and half as wide as a normal head, and yes, he smoked Virginia Slims 100's, made him look like a blow fish with a straw in its mouth.

I tried them, burned way to hot and fast.

They were marketed as womens' cigarettes.  But yeah, they were targeted by equally-slim rival: Benson & Hedges...  "... A Silly Millimeter Longer. "

Quote from: kit saginaw on July 08, 2015, 08:45:42 PM
They were marketed as womens' cigarettes.  But yeah, they were targeted by equally-slim rival: Benson & Hedges...  "... A Silly Millimeter Longer. "

That's what made it so odd, so I asked him why he smoked girl cigs.
He said he steels from his mom.