Cigarette Filter and Its Recycling

choi

(1) Pagan Kennedy, Who Made That? (Cigarette Filter). New York Times Magazine, July 8, 2012 (title in print).
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/0 ... garette-filter.html

Note:
(a) The article says that around 1936 "[c]ompanies sometimes added special mouthpieces — called beauty tips, often made of cork — for women."

Johnson CE, Development of Cigarette Components to Meet Industry Needs. Celanese Acetate, Paper presented at the 52nd Tobacco Science Researh Conference, Sept 14-16, 1998, Atlanta, GA
www.celanese.com/print/tobacco_s ... per_tow_acetate.pdf
("Introduction of the Bonsack cigarette-making machine in 1881 paved the way for the modern cigarette industry by dramatically increasing production capability to 120,000 cigarettes per day (2).  By the 1910’s, machine-made cigarettes using blends of domestic tobacco were being sold in the modern soft pack of 20 cigarettes (1).  These were unfiltered cigarettes, consisting of tobacco shred wrapped and sealed in paper.  Later, in the 1930’s, a band of cork was added around the end of the cigarette to promote lip release (3)")

Reference 3 is
Shannon JF, An overview of modern tipping materials for cigarettes. Tobacco International 1984, 186, 5-8
, which is available online for free at the library of University of California, San Francisco:
http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/t ... 6D7CE3338.tobacco03

Neither had an image, nor can I find one in the Web (online there are old print ads on sale promoting cork tip cigarettes, where the cigarettes are too small to discern details).

(b) Kent (cigarette)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_(cigarette)
(a brand of of British American Tobacco; The brand is named after Herbert Kent, a former executive at Lorillard Tobacco Company)
(c) cigarette filter
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette_filter
("The raw material for the manufacture of cigarette filters is cellulose (obtained from wood). The cellulose is acetylated")
(d) Low-Yield Cigarettes; Fact sheet. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, undated.
www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statist ... igarettes/index.htm
("There is no strong scientific evidence that low-yield cigarettes are less harmful than regular cigarettes"--the two varieties being "defined by measuring tar on standardized smoking machines"; compensatory smoking)


(2) Wendy Koch, Recycling Programs Tackle Problem of Cigarette Butts. USA Today, June 18, 2012
www.usatoday.com/news/health/sto ... ecycling/55674502/1
(Two companies: TerraCycle; Eco-Tech Displays is starting a company, Cigarette Butt Litter Dream Recycling)

My comment: The same journalist said elsewhere that "contrary to what many smokers may think, are not biodegradable."