Butting out cigarette butts
American historian Robert Proctor once called them “the deadliest fraud in the history of human civilisation”. Now the Government wants to ban them, as part of its Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan. Nikki Macdonald investigates the chequered history of the cigarette filter.
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