The FDA can require cigarette manufacturers to make filters without the holes. This is easy and they are doing it for some brands already.” Having filters may indeed be safer, Shields clarified.

Ventilation holes in filters -- now found in nearly every brand of cigarette -- make smoking even more deadly and are associated with a steep rise in lung adenocarcinoma.

The small holes in cigarette filters are doing more harm than good, the government institute for health and the environment RIVM said on Friday. Although the holes should in theory lessen the amount ...

Did Cigarettes Ever Contain Asbestos Filters? Kent cigarettes, the company claimed in the 1950s, were "the one cigarette that can show you proof of greater health protection." ...

No ifs, ands, or butts Cigarette butts are the most littered item on the planet. Two new studies from the Institute for Global Tobacco Control point to possible solutions.

A campaign, the Cigarette Butt Pollution Project, hopes to ban cigarette filters, which are made from cellulose acetate, a type of plastic that can take over a decade to decompose, according to ...

Swimmers bathing among cigarette stubs, warns MP in call for plastic butts ban - A plastic cigarette filters ban ‘will make a great deal of difference’ for swimmers in The Solent, Dame ...

Cigarette filter takes more than a decade to degrade and release more than 7,000 chemical substances in the process. To tackle plastic pollution, the government should ban the use of cigarette filters ...