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 ...

Every smoker has done it; either you're distracted by a conversation you are having, you're driving and trying to keep an eye on the road, you're in a poorly lit bar, or you've simply had a few too ...

Dr. Kathryn Barnsley is affiliated with SmokeFree Tasmania, the Centre for Excellence in Respiratory Research, School of Medicine UTAS, and has been associated with the Tasmanian Cancer Council, the ...

Background: More than 90% of the cigarettes sold worldwide have a filter. Nearly all filters consist of a rod of numerous (> 12 000) plastic-like cellulose acetate fibres. During high speed cigarette ...

People are smoking less than they used to. That’s good news for public health. But for the few chemical firms that make the cellulose acetate fibers used in cigarette filters, the decline poses a long ...