Volunteers with the NGO Ocean Conservancy have picked more than 60 million cigarette filters since the group began organizing beach cleanups in 1986, according to NBC News. This figure dwarfs the ...

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

Tobacco companies have contributed a quarter of a million euros towards street cleaning under new laws, a fraction of overall ...

"I wanted to create a way to filter out tar and other toxins and carcinogens from smoke before it was inhaled," said an ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...