Surprising new way cigarettes are harmful — and not just to smokers

One more reason to kick butts. Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death in the US, according to the CDC, causing ...
University at Buffalo

Cigarette filters an underestimated source of microplastic pollution

Cigarette filters release two dozen microfibers upon first contact with water, threatening wildlife and human health.
The Cool Down on MSNOpinion

Study makes grim findings about cigarette filters: 'They have to be taken off the market entirely'

"It's not the right approach to focus on making tobacco producers pay for cleaning up the filters." Study makes grim findings ...
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Experts issue warning after study's grim discovery on cigarette filters: 'In the interests of public health'

"Designed to give the false impression." Experts issue warning after study's grim discovery on cigarette filters: 'In the ...
Inverse

Scientists Reveal the Devastating Hidden Cost of Tossing Cigarette Butts

The most pervasive form of plastic pollution on Earth isn’t plastic bags or even plastic straws. It’s cigarette butts. Every year, an estimated 4.5 trillion cigarette butts, containing plastic filters ...
Redmond Reporter

AntiTar Cigarette Filter Review: Remove Toxic Smoke and Tar?

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 ...
WRAL

Cigarette filters are the No.1 plastic pollutant ... and don't prevent cancer

Plastic straws and bags have received widespread attention as pollutants. But another, even bigger, plastic problem has been slipping under the radar -- cigarette filters. Cigarette butts containing ...
New York Post

Cigarette filters could increase the risk of lung cancer, scientists warn

Cigarette filters are completely useless and are only there to fool smokers into thinking they’re safer, according to scientists. Experts not only say the butts don’t actually work but they could even ...
Wall Street Journal

A Deposit on Cigarette Filters Could Work Wonders

I laughed out loud while reading the brilliant ideas thrown about in “The World’s Most Littered Item Draws Fire” (Business & Finance, Aug. 1.) Save yourself the hassle of inventing a new cigarette ...
New York Post

NY Democrats want to ban sale of single-use cigarette filters known as ‘butts’

ALBANY — Democratic lawmakers want to ban the sale of single-use cigarette filters, commonly known as “butts,” in the state’s latest effort to rein in the tobacco industry. “Cigarette butts are ...
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Scientists convert cigarette butts into new material for fast, durable energy storage

Billions of cigarette butts end up on sidewalks, beaches, and gutters each year. They are small, easy to ignore, and hard to ...
JSTOR Daily

The intractable cigarette 'filter problem'

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 ...