One more reason to kick butts. Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death in the US, according to the CDC, causing ...
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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 ...
Cigarette filters release two dozen microfibers upon first contact with water, threatening wildlife and human health.
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 ...
Cigarette butts are a major pollution problem, but new research shows they can be recycled into fast-charging energy storage ...
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 ...
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 ...
New legislation proposed by the State Assembly would not only ban the sale of single-use vape products and tobacco filters, but single-use cannabis cartridges as well. Environmental advocates say that ...
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What exactly is the point of cigarette filters?
Cigarette filters were widely introduced in the 1950s, ostensibly to make smoking less harmful. With growing public concern about lung cancer and other smoking-related diseases, the tobacco industry ...
Huge quantities of plastic waste are littering the planet today, stimulating both governments and the public to react in their own ways to quell the threat to global life systems. From 2021, ...
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 ...
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