Cigarettes with defective filters marketed for 40 years:
The filter of today's cigarette is defective! Philip Morris, Inc has known of this filter defect for more than 40 years! Read More....
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Cigarettes With Defective Filters Marketed For 40 Years
If this doesn't infuriate you, we don't know what will!
Below is the conclusion from a 2002 study that basically proved smokers are not only inhaling toxic smoke but "regularly ingesting and inhaling non-degradable, toxin coated cellulose acetate fragments and carbon micro particles and possibly other components that are released from conventional cigarette filters during normal smoking." What's worse is tobacco companies have known about this for 40 years!
BACKGROUND: More than 90% of the cigarettes sold worldwide have a filter. Nearly all filters consist of a rod of numerous ( > 12 000) plastic-like cellulose acetate fibres. During high speed cigarette manufacturing procedures, fragments of cellulose acetate that form the mouthpiece of a filter rod become separated from the filter at the end face. The cut surface of the filter of nearly all cigarettes has these fragments. In smoking a cigarette in the usual manner, some of these fragments are released during puffing.....
CONCLUSIONS: We have shown that: (a) the filter of today's cigarette is defective; (b) Philip Morris, Inc has known of this filter defect for more than 40 years; (c) the existence of this filter defect has been confirmed by others in independent studies; (d) many methods exist to prevent and correct the filter defect, but have not been implemented; and (e) results of investigations substantiating defective filters have been concealed from the smoker and the health community. The tobacco industry has been negligent in not performing toxicological examinations and other studies to assess the human health risks associated with regularly ingesting and inhaling non-degradable, toxin coated cellulose acetate fragments and carbon micro particles and possibly other components that are released from conventional cigarette filters during normal smoking. The rationale for harm assessment is supported by the results of consumer surveys that have shown that the ingestion or inhalation of cigarette filter fibres are a health concern to nearly all smokers. ( Read entire study,-courtesy PubMed, where doctors surf for info.)
If you're thinking this doesn't apply to you because you fell for the lies that charcoal filters were "safer", read the conclusion from the next 1997 study below.
CONCLUSIONS: Charcoal granules are incorporated into cigarette filters to aid in removing toxins in cigarette smoke. In studies of Lark, a popular American cigarette with a charcoal filter, charcoal granules were observed on the filter surface, and were released from the filter when the cigarettes were smoked. During smoking, the toxin-containing charcoal granules are inhaled or ingested. The specific adverse health effects of inhaling or ingesting carbon granules have not been addressed; nevertheless, the smoker, as an educated consumer, should be informed of the possible health risks.
(Read entire study,-courtesy PubMed, where doctors surf for info.)