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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 ...
The Conversation

Cigarette filters do nothing for smokers’ health and just create plastic pollution – they should be banned

Jonathan Livingstone-Banks has received funding from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and Cancer Research UK (CRUK). Jamie ...
The Conversation

Making the tobacco industry pay for cigarette litter could stop 4.5 billion butts polluting the Australian environment

Research Fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland Kylie Morphett is an affiliate of the NHMRC funded Centre for Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame. Her research ...
EurekAlert!

Cigarette butts leak deadly toxins into the environment

Cigarette filters are the world’s most common form of litter. Researchers from the University of Gothenburg can now show that the filters leak thousands of toxins and plastic fibres that are toxic to ...