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

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 ...

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

Cigarette filters, introduced decades ago to reduce the amount of tar smokers inhale, also alter other properties of smoke and smoking in a way that raises the risk of lung cancer, researchers say. In ...

The ventilation systems built into cigarette filters in the mid-1960s to reduce tar and make smoking 'smoother' and 'safer' were responsible for the paradoxical rise in rates of lung adenocarcinoma — ...

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 ...

Filters in cigarette butts, the most common form of litter, leach assorted toxic chemicals and microplastic pollution into the environment — and must be “completely banned”. This is the rallying cry ...

South Korean researchers have come up with a one-step process for turning cigarette filters into a material that can be used to store energy in supercapacitors ...

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 ...