A new study from the University at Buffalo examines this issue, with findings showing that one cigarette filter can release ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Plastic straws and bags have received ...

Billions of cigarette butts end up on sidewalks, beaches, and gutters each year. They are small, easy to ignore, and hard to ...

Cigarette filters are completely useless and are only there to fool smokers into thinking they’re safer, according to scientists. Experts not only say the butts don’t actually work but they could even ...

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 ...

The 3 rd Generation AntiTar filters are effective for making smoking safer because they slash 90% of the cigarettes’ tar, and each one can be reused up to six times. Moreover, they’re claimed not to ...

I laughed out loud while reading the brilliant ideas thrown about in “The World’s Most Littered Item Draws Fire” (Business & Finance, Aug. 1.) Save yourself the hassle of inventing a new cigarette ...

Tobacco Control, Vol. 20, Supplement 1: The Environmental Burden of Cigarette Butts (May 2011), pp. i10-i16 (7 pages) Background When lung cancer fears emerged in the 1950s, cigarette companies ...

It is well known that discarded cigarette butts release nicotine, heavy metals and other toxins into the environment, including natural water systems. Less understood, however, is what happens to the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Plastic straws and bags have received ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

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 ...