Why filters are not “safer”

Filters: a cigarette engineering hoax that harms both smokers and the environment Filters were engineered to make cigarettes taste better, and seem safer. from www.shutterstock.com Kathryn Barnsley, University of Tasmania and Haydn Walters, University of Tasmania Cigarette filters were initially introduced by the tobacco industry in the 1960s to make cigarettes “safer”. But we now