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What exactly is the point of cigarette filters?

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 ...
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Cigarette filters do nothing for smokers’ health and just create plastic pollution – they should be banned

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 ...

Resident shares photo of disturbing trend on local streets: 'Deplorable'

Environmentalists have warned that cigarette butts are often mistaken for food by birds and fish, leading to ingestion that ...