BALTIMORE - The City of Baltimore is filing a lawsuit against tobacco companies for cigarette filter waste. City leaders say the lawsuit is to "hold cigarette manufacturers accountable for cleanup ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock The adverse impacts of cigarettes on human health are plenty, but a 2023 study found that cigarettes also ...

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 ...

Cigarette filters are completely useless and are only there to fool smokers into thinking they’re safer, according to scientists. Experts not only say the butts don’t actually work but they could even ...

People smoke a lot of cigarettes, which leads to a lot of trash. Tom Novotny has done the math: An estimated 5.6 trillion butts each year end up littering the global environment. But a group of ...

Cigarette butts are litter! In fact, they are the single most littered item in the world, making up approximately 30% of all items collected during cleanups. The butt of a cigarette is primarily the ...

It is well known that discarded cigarette butts release nicotine, heavy metals and other toxins into the environment, including natural water systems. Less understood, however, is what happens to the ...

ALBANY - Get those cigarette butts outta here! A group of Democratic state lawmakers want New York to kick cigarettes with single-use filters to the curb and outlaw their sale in the state, saying ...

Research Fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland Kylie Morphett is an affiliate of the NHMRC funded Centre for Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame. Her research ...