Filter in cigarettes that reduce nicotine, tar and carbon monoxide
Filters in a new and used cigarette. Filters were designed to turn brown with use to give the illusion that they were effective at reducing the harmfulness.[1][2]Components of a filter cigarette:
Cigarette filter
Imitation cork tip paper
Cigarette paper
Tobacco
A cigarette filter, also known as a filter tip, is a component of a cigarette, along with cigarette paper, capsules and adhesives. Filters were introduced in the early 1950s.[3]
Filters may be made from plastic cellulose acetate fiber, paper or activated charcoal (either as a cavity filter or embedded into the plastic cellulose acetate fibers). Macroporous phenol-formaldehyde resins and asbestos have also been used.[4][5] The plastic cellulose acetate filter and paper modify the particulate smoke phase by particle retention (filtration), and finely divided carbon modifies the gaseous phase (adsorption).[6]
Filters are intended to reduce the harm caused by smoking by reducing harmful chemicals inhaled by smokers. While laboratory tests show a reduction of "tar" and nicotine in cigarette smoke, filters are ineffective at removing gases of low molecular weight, such as carbon monoxide.[7] Most of these measured reductions[which?] occur only when the cigarette is smoked on a smoking machine; when smoked by a human, the compounds are delivered into the lungs regardless of whether a filter is used.[2]
Most factory-made cigarettes are equipped with a filter; those who roll their own can buy them from a tobacconist.[2]
^Kennedy, Pagan (6 July 2012). "Who Made That Cigarette Filter?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
^Cite error: The named reference Monograph13 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Francois de Dardel; Thomas V. Arden (2007), "Ion Exchangers", Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry (7th ed.), Wiley, pp. 1–74, doi:10.1002/14356007.a14_393, ISBN 978-3527306732
^Seymour S. Chissick (2007), "Asbestos", Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry (7th ed.), Wiley, pp. 1–18, doi:10.1002/14356007.a03_151, ISBN 978-3527306732
^T. C. Tso (2007), "Tobacco", Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry (7th ed.), Wiley, pp. 1–26, doi:10.1002/14356007.a27_123, ISBN 978-3527306732
^Robert Kapp (2005), "Tobacco Smoke", Encyclopedia of Toxicology, vol. 4 (2nd ed.), Elsevier, pp. 200–202, ISBN 978-0-12-745354-5
A cigarettefilter, also known as a filter tip, is a component of a cigarette, along with cigarette paper, capsules and adhesives. Filters were introduced...
problems relating to nearly every organ of the body. Most modern cigarettes are filtered, although this does not make the smoke inhaled from them contain...
small holes in the sides of the filter dilute the tobacco smoke with clean air. In ultra-light cigarettes, the filter's perforations are even larger, and...
smoker's lips as cigarette paper often could. Some holders also contained a filter for taste and, later, health reasons. Cigarette holders range from...
Look up Filter, filter, filtering, or filters in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Filter, filtering, filters or filtration may also refer to: Filter (higher-order...
specialty paper used for making cigarettes (commercially manufactured filtercigarettes and individually made roll-your-own cigarettes). Rolling papers are packs...
spaces. Herbal cigarettes can carry carcinogens. Herbal cigarettes are most often made using standard-issue rolling papers and cigarettefilters, bundled together...
menthol filter-tip cigarettes in 1956 under the Salem brand. Less heavily mentholated than Kool, Salem was positioned as an all-purpose cigarette, and captured...
Indian cigarette brand, which is owned and produced by ITC Limited. Initially launched as Wills Filter, it was among the earliest Indian cigarettes to feature...
Filter 57 is a Slovenian brand of cigarettes, owned and manufactured by "Tobačna Ljubljana, a division of Imperial Tobacco. In the Islamic Republic of...
This is a list of current cigarette brands. Factory-made cigarettes, when contrasted to roll-your-own cigarettes, are called tailor mades. "Gallery Produk"...
and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette (2021) excerpt Kennedy P (6 July 2012). "Who Made That CigaretteFilter?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331...
current company was established in London in 1940 as a manufacturer of cigarettefilters, crêpe and tissue paper, and the production of fibres, pulp, paper...
especially gold. It is also used in cigarettefilters and in the EVAP used in cars. When filtering water, charcoal carbon filters are most effective at removing...
Global Information
