The ventilation systems built into cigarette filters in the mid-1960s to reduce tar and make smoking 'smoother' and 'safer' were responsible for the paradoxical rise in rates of lung adenocarcinoma — ...

Q: I smoked cigarettes for years, but I always used the filtered kind. (I’ve since stopped.) Now I’m hearing that people who smoke filtered cigarettes have increased rates of lung cancer compared with ...

Philter Labs aims to reduce the stigma associated with vaping tobacco and cannabis. The company’s product is simple enough: It’s a portable filter that, to my surprise, eliminates nearly all ...

Do cigarette filters provide any benefits to the smoker, or were they simply created by the tobacco companies to make customers think they were addressing the health risks of smoking? Filters seem to ...

Cigarette smokers who wanted to pick a winner in the tar-and-nicotine sweepstakes got a form sheet last week from one of the nation’s leading cancer research organizations, the New York ...

Do cigarette filters cut down on the tar and nicotine that have helped to earn tobacco its unpleasant reputation as a cause of lung cancer, heart disease and assorted other ills? Certainly both ...

Before retiring from employment with the University of Sydney the author contributed to an options paper on the regulation of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems commissioned by the Department of ...

Huge quantities of plastic waste are littering the planet today, stimulating both governments and the public to react in their own ways to quell the threat to global life systems. From 2021, ...