Sentences with phrase «cigarette filter paper»

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Also this week, in findings that Curtin University's Mike Daube described in The Age as «one of the most important papers on tobacco in recent years», a US study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute found that cigarette filters have increased the risk of lung cancer from smoking.

The paper reported that the filters, which were introduced in the 1960s to dilute smoke with air and theoretically reduce the amount of tar inhaled, actually increase the harms of smoking because they cause the cigarette to burn more slowly, thus allowing more time for toxic components to be released.