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Almost all commercial cigarette filters are made of plastic and over 4.5 trillion end up littered every yearone of the most littered items on Earth

Morris Coats, A Note on Estimating Cross-Border Effects of State Cigarette Taxes, National Tax Journal 48:4 (December 1995): 573-584, ntj-v48n04p573-84-note-estimating-cross-border.pdf?v=%CE%B1&r=35923133871196367

Explore three common myths about filters, including why they dont make smoking safer and how they are perpetuating the climate crisis.

It also puts you at risk of developing chronic diseases like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD and diabetes

The consistent understanding of these topics across both product types suggests that public health initiatives and regulatory education have been relatively successful in these domains

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