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.
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 ...
Cigarette butts are a major pollution problem, but new research shows they can be recycled into fast-charging energy storage ...
"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 ...
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 ...
Billions of cigarette butts end up on sidewalks, beaches, and gutters each year. They are small, easy to ignore, and hard to ...
California lawmakers are weighing a bill that would ban sales of cigarette filters and other single-use tobacco and cannabis products — such as single-use vape pods or cigarillo tips. Supporters of ...