Cigarette waste may fuel antibiotic resistance, creating new health and environmental risks. Discover the hidden dangers.

Roughly 4.5 trillion cigarette filters pollute our oceans, rivers, city sidewalks, parks, soil and beaches every year,” said Dr Ruediger Krech, Director of Health Promotion at WHO. Products like ...

Antibiotic resistance is a major global health problem: it implies that vital drugs are no longer effective. A study led by researchers at the Institute of Hydrobiology at TUD Dresden University of ...

Cigarette filters are among the most littered plastic items on earth, with an astonishing 4.5 trillion cigarette butts littered on streets and beaches each year worldwide. It is also expensive to ...

New research demonstrates that pollutants from cigarette smoke and cigarette waste can promote the growth and spread of ...

By comparison, the public is less aware of the damage cigarette filters cause to our environment and health. And where tobacco chokes a smoker's lungs, cigarette butts choke the earth ...

"Cigarette filters contain many of the toxic substances found in cigarette smoke," explains Dr. Uli Klümper from the Institute of Hydrobiology at the TUD. "In our study, we found that when these ...