Cigarette butts have long been considered an environmental hazard, but new research is revealing a more immediate health threat. A recent study found that the microplastics from cigarette filters ...

Cigarette filters were widely introduced in the 1950s, ostensibly to make smoking less harmful. Over 70 years later, we know that filters don’t reduce harm. In fact, they may exacerbate some risks. By ...

Anti Tar is a cigarette filter that claims to filter tar and improve airflow for cigarettes. Using the cigarette filter, you can purportedly protect your lungs from tar, reduce coughing, and relieve ...

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 world's most common type of litter, cigarette filters leach thousands of toxic chemicals and microplastics into the environment. Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before ...

Do cigarette filters cut down on the tar and nicotine that have helped to earn tobacco its unpleasant reputation as a cause of lung cancer, heart disease and assorted other ills? Certainly both ...

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 ...

The sale of filtered cigarettes and cigars will be banned in Santa Cruz County by 2027. “There have been tobacco policies across the world, but in terms of the filtered cigarette ban, we are the first ...