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(Mesothelioma victims often die within a year.) Lenney, a former insurance agent in Northern California, says he started smoking in high school, and soon switched from unfiltered brands: The Kent Micronite filter was supposed to be the healthy alternative, so I started smoking Kents. Diagnosed with mesothelioma in November 2009, Lenney had his left lung removed and underwent chemotherapy and radiation treatments
Gilbert, interviewed years later said that the modern e-cigarette is obviously based on his original design, and when pressed to say why it never took off in 1963, he could only surmise that the companies he showed it to simply wished to wait until his patent expired to launch their own versions, or, in the case of the tobacco companies, quashed it to protect their established product line
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