Cigarettes
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Billions of cigarette butts are discarded around the world each year, but new research suggests they could be set for a new lease on life with scientists demonstrating that used filters can be transformed into a high-performance supercapacitor component.
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The latest iPhone multi-tool case to find its way to the world of crowd funding, the Hangout Case, offers three pocket-essential functions: protecting your iPhone, popping a bottle, and lighting a cigarette or fire. It also has a tripod screw mount.
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Fumo is an interactive smoking pole which rewards smokers who dispose of their cigarette butts in an appropriate manner. It may not prevent people from smoking, but it should at least lessen the problem of littering associated with the habit.
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What can you say about cigarette butts? They're unsightly, they don't biodegrade, plus they're highly toxic to aquatic organisms. It turns out, however, that they are good for something. The City of Vancouver has launched a pilot program, in which the butts will be recycled.
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Scientists have created what they claim is the world's first secondhand tobacco smoke sensor that records data in real time.
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Researchers have developed a vaccine that turns the recipient’s kidney into a factory continuously churning out antibodies that clear the bloodstream of nicotine before it has a chance to reach the brain and deliver it’s addictive rush.
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Porsche Design this week released a Shisha waterpipe. According to WHO, a Shisha session is equivalent to smoking 100 cigarettes. One of Porsche's primary brand values has always been uncompromising respect for the safety of its clients. Maybe not!
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ScienceNew research published in two studies suggests that smoking may also affect another vital organ; the brain.
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ScienceA team of Chinese scientists claim that cigarette butts can be used to protect steel from corrosion.
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Greenbutts manufacturers cigarette filters made from natural products that breakdown quickly in the environment and have no nasty chemicals like traditional filters.
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SuperSmoker is an electronic alternative to cigarettes promoted as offering a healthier and cheaper way for smokers to continue their habit as well as beat increasingly strict public smoking bans.