Do cigarette filters provide any benefits to the smoker, or were they simply created by the tobacco companies to make customers think they were addressing the health risks of smoking? Filters seem to ...

The availability of menthol-flavored accessories used by smokers rolling their own tobacco may be undermining the UK's ban on menthol cigarettes, suggests a new study by UCL researchers. Menthol ...

The snow has melted to reveal months of discarded pizza crusts, dog poop and cigarette butts. But unlike the first two things, cigarette filters aren't biodegradable, and now the city has launched a ...

The most pervasive form of plastic pollution on Earth isn’t plastic bags or even plastic straws. It’s cigarette butts. Every year, an estimated 4.5 trillion cigarette butts, containing plastic filters ...