Comment on Tobacco conference to weigh up stubbing out cigarette butts
naeap@sopuli.xyz 1 month agoI roll my own, but my filters are made of recycled paper
It’s popular, because you don’t suck in pieces of tobacco
Comment on Tobacco conference to weigh up stubbing out cigarette butts
naeap@sopuli.xyz 1 month agoI roll my own, but my filters are made of recycled paper
It’s popular, because you don’t suck in pieces of tobacco
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 1 month ago
They do actually serve the purpose of catching a lot of tar, not just tobacco itself. Which I would assume does have some positive impact for the smoker not getting as much tar through to their body. Although its obviously a negligible benefit in comparison to just not smoking, but that seems reductive. Just like how they talk about ecigs. Harm reduction is a pretty valuable perspective, but for some reason people only view tobacco products from an “abstinence or bust” standpoint.
In the pre-filter days, when people used those long Pink Panther style cigarette holders, a lot of the holders were designed to fit another cigarette inside of it. The second cigarette acted as a kind of tar filter for the cigarette being smoked. When I was young I bought an old cigarette holder at an antique mall and it still had a cigarette inside it from who knows how many decades prior