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 ...

Cellulose acetate, the plastic-like polymer that forms the core of most cigarette filters, has a second life that few smokers ...

It is well known that discarded cigarette butts release nicotine, heavy metals and other toxins into the environment, including natural water systems. Less understood, however, is what happens to the ...

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has made it mandatory for the cigarette manufacturers to compile comprehensive production and sales data of filter rods to eliminate federal excise duty evasion. The ...

CAIRO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RELX International, a responsible multinational electronic cigarettes company, lauds the recent decision by Egyptian authorities to allow the legal import and commercialisation ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – It is well known that discarded cigarette butts release nicotine, heavy metals and other toxins into the environment, including natural water systems. Less understood, however, is what ...

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 ...

It is well known that discarded cigarette butts release nicotine, heavy metals and other toxins into the environment, including natural water systems. Less understood, however, is what happens to the ...