A photograph of a cigarette containing blue asbestos in its filter is commonly shared on various social media channels, including Reddit: These photographs typically identify the item pictured as a ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock While they are marketed as the safer option, cigarette filters have been found to be more trouble than they ...

Anti Tar is a cigarette filter that claims to filter tar and improve airflow for cigarettes. Using the cigarette filter, you can purportedly protect your lungs from tar, reduce coughing, and relieve ...

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 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 ...

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 ...