After eight years’ work in his home laboratory, an obscure New Jersey chemist last week claimed a grand prize in cigarette research: a filter that removes two-thirds of the tar and nicotine that now ...

Q: I smoked cigarettes for years, but I always used the filtered kind. (I’ve since stopped.) Now I’m hearing that people who smoke filtered cigarettes have increased rates of lung cancer compared with ...

Philter Labs aims to reduce the stigma associated with vaping tobacco and cannabis. The company’s product is simple enough: It’s a portable filter that, to my surprise, eliminates nearly all ...

Do cigarette filters cut down on the tar and nicotine that have helped to earn tobacco its unpleasant reputation as a cause of lung cancer, heart disease and assorted other ills? Certainly both ...