As noted by the team of researchers, just 25% of the population in Great Britain is aware of the ineffectiveness of cigarette ...

A woman smoke a cigarette during a break in her job in Vina del Mar, Chile May 12, 2017. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido By Will Boggs MD Cigarette filters, introduced decades ago to reduce the amount of tar ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Plastic straws and bags have received ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Plastic straws and bags have received ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

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 ...