This decreases smokers exposure to just a few carcinogens, but increases their exposure to more harmful smoke components in the vapour phase of the smoke, because it goes straight through filters and more into the peripheral airways
ITEM NOTES: This is from a tobacco-related collection which we will be listing more of over the next few months
Worldwide, tobacco is continuously touted as a health crisis, with smoking and second-hand smoking killing over 8 million people a year
A jewelled and enamelled Faberge cigarette case by Michael Perchin, 1896, is seen during the preview of 'Romanov Heirlooms: The lost Inheritance of the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna' at Sotheby's, London
The damage these discarded butts causes is long-lasting: The filters, which contain a type of plastic, leach toxic chemicals into the water and can remain in the water source for up to a decade