Why can’t cigarette filters be made from bio-degradable materials?
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They can. It’s just significantly more expensive to do, and stopping people from smoking is already a big initiative, blurring the water will just make it harder.
We don’t want people to toss butts on the ground as it is. If you made them biodegradable people would get the idea that it’s okay now.
Also, profits. It costs more to make biodegradable filters. That comes out of their profits so why bother?
Also, Also, nicotine is toxic to so many things. You could make a cigarette biodegradable but there is no guarantee that things would eat it in a timely fashion.
Most companies, even the “responsible” ones are profit driven and make eco-friendly products to make money. Cigarette companies are already public enemy number one, and eco-friendly filters won’t do anything for their public image.
Simply put, they have nothing to gain by doing it so they don’t.
They could, but expecting environmental responsibility from the people who make their money off cigarettes is a bit rich…
They are made of acetate, acetate is plant based, kind of a plastic but it’s actually biodegradable. Could last at least 10 years in a very dry climate but in normal climates will disintegrate in no more than a year or less if it’s a humid environment. Cigarette filters are biodegradable.
The small swiss company koch & gsell has cigarettes with cellulose-filters, they say they are bio degradable. The eco-friendly image is why they do it I think, they are the only company using swiss local grown tabacco.
I did experience no downside to it, I even did not feel the urge to throw them in the environment as well.
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Because the stuff that they absorb, that we don’t want to inhale, is thrown into the environment together with them. A lot of people throw cigarette buds into the environment as it is and that’s bad, but if we made them biodegradable it would actually be worse, because more people would throw them out like that and bring all of that nasty stuff into the environment.,
Swan make biodegradable eco filters that you can buy online – they take a little bit of getting used to but I’ve smoked them for years and don’t mind at all, the stupidity is thar they still come packaged in plastic tubes
Aren’t Camel filters made of cotton? Thats what I’ve heard
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