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, ...

Banning the manufacture of filter-tip cigarettes would eliminate the issue of cigarettes littering the beaches, roadways and generally everywhere else people drop butts. Cigarette packages state that ...

A San Francisco jury has awarded $1.36 million to a terminally ill man who smoked filter-tipped Kent cigarettes in the 1950s that contained asbestos. Lawyers for Don Lenney and his wife, Monica, said ...

In June 1955, chemist Jerry Ezekiel used a smoking machine to test cigarette filters at U.S. Filter Corp. in Richmond. Growing interest in filter-tipped cigarettes led to the founding of the company, ...

THE ciliastatic effect of tobacco smoke has been examined by several workers. It is known that mammalian cilia stop beating after a relatively short exposure. Although attempts have been made to ...

On sale in New York last week went L & M Filters, the first entry of the Big Three into the filter-tip cigarette market. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. (Chesterfield), third largest U.S. cigarette maker, ...

San Diego State University researchers say filter-tipped cigarette butts are toxic to marine and fresh-water fish. KPBS Environment Reporter Ed Joyce tells us they want those butts classified as ...