Cigarettes make up around two-thirds of all litter, despite only 12% of people smoking. What steps need to be taken to ...

Cigarette filters were widely introduced in the 1950s, ostensibly to make smoking less harmful. With growing public concern about lung cancer and other smoking-related diseases, the tobacco industry ...

Jonathan Livingstone-Banks has received funding from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and Cancer Research UK (CRUK). Jamie ...

Humans discard trillions of cigarette butts every year—a major hazard for the environment. Cigarette butts create a massive and messy environmental burden. To help address the ongoing issue, engineers ...

In a bid to reimagine "unpleasant and seemingly worthless" waste, graduate Olivia Gino has transformed cigarette butts into a ...