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It's not just the filter, it's also the chemicals in the tobacco https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-cancer/smoking-and-cancer/whats-in-a-c

It's not just the filter, it's also the chemicals in the tobacco https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-cancer/smoking-and-cancer/whats-in-a-cigarette-0 https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-canc... The whole thing is toxic for the environment

slothtrop 3y ago
Your link pertains to health not environment. Most of the ingredients listed are in smoke. Inhaling any burnt plant matter isn't healthy. I'm not sure how a decomposing plant in itself can harm the environment. I could imagine that synthetic additives are, but these seem to be overstated.
- worik 3y ago
  > Inhaling any burnt plant matter isn't healthy. That feels that it should be true. But epidemiological studies of pure cannabis smokers (hard to find) do not bear it out. Lungs seem to cope
  - Jarwain 3y ago
    Cope doesn't inherently mean is Great. My understanding of this effect is in part that cannabis smokers just don't end up smoking as much mass that tobacco smokers do.
maximinus_thrax 3y ago
> toxic for the environment Not sure how true this is. The chemicals from the tobacco (aside from additives which I'm sure they're negligible in this context as the plant is not combusted) are.. from the environment? Nicotine is a pesticide so that would make it more toxic for certain parts of the environment, but I'm sure the environment will be fine consuming cigarettes. Way better than say a piece of plastic... (some) cigarette filters do contain plastic, so that's not ok, but the tobacco part should be fine.
- nvy 3y ago
  >The chemicals from the tobacco (aside from additives which I'm sure they're negligible in this context as the plant is not combusted) are.. from the environment? PFAS, phosphates, CFCs, carbon monoxide, and BPA are all "from the environment", too.
  - maximinus_thrax 3y ago
    What a weird comment. Especially calling out carbon monoxide, which is emitted only if the cigarette burns in this context but otherwise it is ubiquitous in nature and even used as a signaling mechanism by living organisms.
    - nvy 3y ago
      That's my point. Just because things are "from the environment" doesn't mean they aren't toxic or pollutants.

slothtrop 3y ago

Your link pertains to health not environment. Most of the ingredients listed are in smoke. Inhaling any burnt plant matter isn't healthy. I'm not sure how a decomposing plant in itself can harm the environment. I could imagine that synthetic additives are, but these seem to be overstated.

worik 3y ago
> Inhaling any burnt plant matter isn't healthy. That feels that it should be true. But epidemiological studies of pure cannabis smokers (hard to find) do not bear it out. Lungs seem to cope
- Jarwain 3y ago
  Cope doesn't inherently mean is Great. My understanding of this effect is in part that cannabis smokers just don't end up smoking as much mass that tobacco smokers do.

maximinus_thrax 3y ago

> toxic for the environment Not sure how true this is. The chemicals from the tobacco (aside from additives which I'm sure they're negligible in this context as the plant is not combusted) are.. from the environment? Nicotine is a pesticide so that would make it more toxic for certain parts of the environment, but I'm sure the environment will be fine consuming cigarettes. Way better than say a piece of plastic... (some) cigarette filters do contain plastic, so that's not ok, but the tobacco part should be fine.

nvy 3y ago
>The chemicals from the tobacco (aside from additives which I'm sure they're negligible in this context as the plant is not combusted) are.. from the environment? PFAS, phosphates, CFCs, carbon monoxide, and BPA are all "from the environment", too.
- maximinus_thrax 3y ago
  What a weird comment. Especially calling out carbon monoxide, which is emitted only if the cigarette burns in this context but otherwise it is ubiquitous in nature and even used as a signaling mechanism by living organisms.
  - nvy 3y ago
    That's my point. Just because things are "from the environment" doesn't mean they aren't toxic or pollutants.