The ventilation systems built into cigarette filters in the mid-1960s to reduce tar and make smoking 'smoother' and 'safer' were responsible for the paradoxical rise in rates of lung adenocarcinoma — ...

After eight years’ work in his home laboratory, an obscure New Jersey chemist last week claimed a grand prize in cigarette research: a filter that removes two-thirds of the tar and nicotine that now ...

Q: I smoked cigarettes for years, but I always used the filtered kind. (I’ve since stopped.) Now I’m hearing that people who smoke filtered cigarettes have increased rates of lung cancer compared with ...

Do cigarette filters cut down on the tar and nicotine that have helped to earn tobacco its unpleasant reputation as a cause of lung cancer, heart disease and assorted other ills? Certainly both ...

Do cigarette filters provide any benefits to the smoker, or were they simply created by the tobacco companies to make customers think they were addressing the health risks of smoking? Filters seem to ...

Before retiring from employment with the University of Sydney the author contributed to an options paper on the regulation of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems commissioned by the Department of ...

Q: I have been a customer of Hotwire for over 13 years. I love the thrill of pressing the button and not knowing what you will get, and I have never been disappointed until last week. I booked a room ...

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, ...

University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Last week, I wrote about factoid-driven myths that just refuse to die. In less than a week, the piece has had more than 1.184 ...