Discover how cigarette filters—the most common form of litter worldwide—may also present a significant source of microplastic ...
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 ...
"Designed to give the false impression." Experts issue warning after study's grim discovery on cigarette filters: 'In the ...
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 ...