Since the filters on cigarettes don't provide any health benefit and act exclusively as a "marketing tool," they should be banned to cut down on harm to the environment, Thomas Novotny, a professor of public health at San Diego State University told NBC News in 2018 about the push
Under the cover are some absolutely gorgeous cigarettes
A lot of smokers think it's biodegradable already. Filters can take years to degrade and, even as they do, they break down into tiny pieces of plastic, called microplastics, which are an increasing hazard in waterways and oceans
Sidestream measurements under controlled conditions demonstrated progressive reductions in all measured smoke emissions, covering particulate, gaseous, nitrogenous and carbon based toxicants, other than formaldehyde, with the decrease in tobacco weight burnt