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, ...

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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 ...

While everyone knows that smoking causes lung cancer, new research concludes that the filters purportedly designed to make cigarettes safer are contributing to an increase in one form of the disease ...

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 ...

The last thing you'd expect to find in an attic is cigarette butts and filters, but that's exactly what was uncovered in a ...

Investigators said the group behind the operation included about 40 people. They produced filtered cigarettes disguised as ...

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, ...

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(CNN) — 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 ...