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Consumers' knowledge and beliefs about the safety of cigarette filters: Table 1

Year: 2001

Type: article

Abstract: Editor,—The primary purpose of the cigarette filter is reduction of tar in tobacco smoke.1 2 Filters also keep tobacco flakes out of smokers' mouths.1 The standard filter used on cigarettes today contains 15 000 fibres per filter.1 Several studies have demonstrated that the filter material (cellulose acetate fibres) can become detached.3-7 Pauly and colleagues have recently observed cigarette filter fibres in human lung specimens, indicating that the material is respirable.8 A study of filter fibres implanted in mice for six months demonstrated that fibres resist biodegradation.5 As a result of burning tobacco, the discharged fibres are also coated with tobacco tar, which contains carcinogens.5 Such inhaled filter fibres may pose a previously undefined health risk to …

Source: Tobacco Control

DOI: 10.1136/tc.10.1.84

Authors: JANICE L HASTRUP, K MICHAEL CUMMINGS, TRACY SWEDROCK, ANDREW HYLAND, JOHN L PAULY

Institutions: Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, State University of New York, University of Tartu

Language: English

Topic: Smoking Behavior and Cessation

Subfield: Physiology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: Eli Lilly and Company