Editor's note

If you had to guess, you’d probably say filters make cigarettes safer, right? They protect us from the harshness of cigarettes, don’t they? Wrong. Not only are filters actually more harmful to smokers’ health, tobacco companies have known this for a long time. Here, Kathryn Barnsley and Haydn Walters outline why they should be banned - for our health, and the health of our oceans.

Alexandra Hansen

Section Editor, Health and Medicine

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Filters: a cigarette engineering hoax that harms both smokers and the environment

Kathryn Barnsley, University of Tasmania; Haydn Walters, University of Tasmania

Many smokers still think filters make cigarettes safer. But they actually make them more harmful, and the tobacco industry has known about this for a long time.

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