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, ...
Every smoker has done it; either you're distracted by a conversation you are having, you're driving and trying to keep an eye on the road, you're in a poorly lit bar, or you've simply had a few too ...
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 ...
Dr. Kathryn Barnsley is affiliated with SmokeFree Tasmania, the Centre for Excellence in Respiratory Research, School of Medicine UTAS, and has been associated with the Tasmanian Cancer Council, the ...
Along with cigarette paper, capsules and adhesives, a cigarette filter, sometimes known as a filter tip, is a component of the cigarette. In the early 1950’s filters were introduced. Plastic cellulose ...
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 ...
Background: More than 90% of the cigarettes sold worldwide have a filter. Nearly all filters consist of a rod of numerous (> 12 000) plastic-like cellulose acetate fibres. During high speed cigarette ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results
Feedback