The ventilation systems built into cigarette filters in the mid-1960s to reduce tar and make smoking 'smoother' and 'safer' were responsible for the paradoxical rise in rates of lung adenocarcinoma — ...

Would banning ventilated filters on cigarettes protect public health? Scientists from multiple institutions, including a group of addiction neuroscience researchers from the Virginia Tech Carilion ...

Cigarette filters, introduced decades ago to reduce the amount of tar smokers inhale, also alter other properties of smoke and smoking in a way that raises the risk of lung cancer, researchers say. In ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A Surgeon General’s report issued in 2014 linked the increased prevalence of lung adenocarcinomas in the United ...