Some scientists have had it up to here with cigarette butts, particularly those from cigarettes with filtered plastic tips. In a new op-ed this week, researchers have called for a global ban of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (KRON) — The Santa Cruz City Council is moving to prohibit the sale of filtered cigarettes in the city. A proposed ordinance, ...

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 ...

“The smaller particles in filtered cigarettes get past the bronchial tubes into the smaller tubes, called bronchioles,” he said, explaining that this irritates the tissue in the periphery of the lung, ...

CAPITOLA — At Thursday’s meeting, the Capitola City Council unanimously voted to ban the sale of filtered cigarettes and cigars. The primary goal of the ban is to reduce the number of non-consumable ...

You know that cigarette smoking is the No. 1 risk factor for lung cancer (and a host of other serious diseases). However, if you do choose to smoke, you may wonder if filtered cigarettes are a safer ...

Huge quantities of plastic waste are littering the planet today, stimulating both governments and the public to react in their own ways to quell the threat to global life systems. From 2021, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Compared with filtered cigarettes, unfiltered cigarettes are associated with an increased risk of lung cancer, lung cancer death, and death from any cause. Although marketed as a safer alternative, ...