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Filters: a cigarette engineering hoax that harms both smokers and the environment

  • Written by Kathryn Barnsley, Adjunct researcher, University of Tasmania
imageFilters were engineered to make cigarettes taste better, and seem safer. from www.shutterstock.com

Cigarette filters were initially introduced by the tobacco industry in the 1960s to make cigarettes “safer”. But we now know they provide no safety, no health benefits, and are a major cause of environmental littering.

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