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.

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

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

California’s proposed ban on the sale of filtered cigarettes, which was heard by the State Assembly Health Committee on March 29, would be a terrible mistake. I support reasonable efforts to remove ...

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

California's Santa Cruz County announced that sales on filtered cigarettes will be banned in 2027, which officials say is the first ban of its kind. In a statement Monday, the ban is taking effect ...

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 ...

The 3 rd Generation AntiTar filters are effective for making smoking safer because they slash 90% of the cigarettes’ tar, and each one can be reused up to six times. Moreover, they’re claimed not to ...

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 ...