Cigarette filters release two dozen microfibers upon first contact with water, threatening wildlife and human health.

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

"It's not the right approach to focus on making tobacco producers pay for cleaning up the filters." Study makes grim findings ...

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

Cigarette butts are a major pollution problem, but new research shows they can be recycled into fast-charging energy storage ...

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 ...

"Designed to give the false impression." Experts issue warning after study's grim discovery on cigarette filters: 'In the interests of public health' first appeared on The Cool Down.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...