The rest of the sales pitch began with talk of the paper absorbing more impurities from the smoke and making it smoother ... blah ... blah ... blah so the boss proceeded to make a rollie while the nice dutch lady went to get the drinks. (He is usually a gent but it was London prices and she had the Mascotte credit card) It doesn’t just hurt the water system. It hurts the whole environment; the soil we plant food in is being found with the same chemical components inside. Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment), Methods for determining TNCO in tobacco smoke, factsheet, undated, accessed July2023

Essentra Launches Biodegradable Filters – Tobacco Reporter

The tobacco industry uses product innovation as a tactic to grow sales and circumvent legislation. Flavour capsules

L.T. Kozlowski, N.A. Dreschel, S.D. Stellman et al, An extremely compensatible cigarette by design: documentary evidence on industry awareness and reactions to the Barclay filter design cheating the tar testing system, Tobacco Control, Feb 2005,14(1):64-70. doi: 10.1136/tc.2004.009167

These Biodegradable Cigarette Filters Will Grow Into a Tree

A seagull in Rome mistakes a cigarette butt for something edible. TIZIANA FABI/AFP/AFP/Getty Images Taxpayers, local authorities, and organizations such as certain environmental groups and businesses, currently bear the costs of cigarette litter clean up. It is costly in the amount of money spent and the needed manpower to do so.Litter has been getting so bad. Groups are trying to set motion on for the elimination of cigarette waste. Do Cigarettes Decompose? Animals, marine life, and toddlers who ingest dropped cigarette butts have become ill or died from them. The present application claims the benefit of co-pending U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/319,537, filed Mar. 31, 2010, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety. The outer tipping paper and plug wrap surrounding the filter tow are each comprised of a biodegradable non-acetate paper and act both to contain the filter tow and attach to the cigarette. Various seeds, including grass seeds, flower seeds and even fruit and vegetable seeds may be embedded into the filter tow as well as in within the tipping paper/plug wrap 6. Alternatively, seeds may be provided only in the filter tow 3, in one or both of the wrapper layers 6, or between the wrapper layers. Smokey Treats is donating 1% of net-profits towards planting trees and food gardens in underprivileged communities around South Africa