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

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

People are smoking less than they used to. That’s good news for public health. But for the few chemical firms that make the cellulose acetate fibers used in cigarette filters, the decline poses a long ...

"Designed to give the false impression." Experts issue warning after study's grim discovery on cigarette filters: 'In the ...

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

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 ...

As far back as 1957, seven years after filter cigarettes were introduced, the Philip Morris company was warned that the filters could release harmful substances when smokers inhaled. Apparently, the ...

Background: More than 90% of the cigarettes sold worldwide have a filter. Nearly all filters consist of a rod of numerous (> 12 000) plastic-like cellulose acetate fibres. During high speed cigarette ...

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

Cigarette filters are completely useless and are only there to fool smokers into thinking they’re safer, according to scientists. Experts not only say the butts don’t actually work but they could even ...

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 ...

LONDON, Aug. 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Cellulose Acetate in Metric Tons by the following Applications: Cigarette Filter Tow, Textile Fibers, Photographic ...