Do cigarette filters provide any benefits to the smoker, or were they simply created by the tobacco companies to make customers think they were addressing the health risks of smoking? Filters seem to ...

The ventilation systems built into cigarette filters in the mid-1960s to reduce tar and make smoking 'smoother' and 'safer' were responsible for the paradoxical rise in rates of lung adenocarcinoma — ...

Collect those discarded cigarette butts. South Korean researchers have found a way to convert the used filters into a material that can be used to store energy. The study was published in the journal ...

Tobacco Control, Vol. 20, Supplement 1: The Environmental Burden of Cigarette Butts (May 2011), pp. i10-i16 (7 pages) Background When lung cancer fears emerged in the 1950s, cigarette companies ...

The 3 rd Generation AntiTar filters are effective for making smoking safer because they slash 90% of the cigarettes’ tar, and each one can be reused up to six times. Moreover, they’re claimed not to ...

Next week, global tobacco control leaders will meet in Geneva to address the environmental damage caused by cigarette butts, with some experts recommending a complete ban on plastic filters. WHO ...

Filters in cigarette butts, the most common form of litter, leach assorted toxic chemicals and microplastic pollution into the environment — and must be “completely banned”. This is the rallying cry ...

South Korean researchers have come up with a one-step process for turning cigarette filters into a material that can be used to store energy in supercapacitors ...