Experts urge UK to ban cigarette filters to protect health and environment

<p>Researchers say filters do not reduce toxicant exposure and are major contributor to plastic waste crisis</p><p>Cigarette filters don’t work and are a major source of plastic pollution that should be banned by the UK government, experts have said.</p><p>In <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.70200">an editorial</a> in Addiction, the journal for the Society for the Study of Addiction, researchers argue that ministers should use a forthcoming <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/01/disposable-vapes-ban-could-push-users-back-smoking-defra">tobacco and vapes bill</a> to “ban filters in the interests of public health and the environment.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/16/experts-urge-uk-to-ban-cigarette-filters-to-protect-health-and-environment">Continue reading...</a>