If the use of medwakh and shisha pipes is riskier than smoking cigarettes because these pipes have no filters, the question arises as to why they don't have filters. Is this a market failure?Read More
A proposed EU directive banning 'unnecessary disposable plastic' could involve the tobacco industry in covering the costs of cigarette waste.Read More
It should not be assumed that a product innovation was aimed specifically at young people simply because it turns out they like the innovation.Read More
The EU Commission could help the tobacco industry move away from cellulose acetate filters by removing its pointless cigarette-delivery requirements.Read More
Smokers cannot bin their butts if there are no bins; but years of austerity mean that even if all the UK’s councils had a whip-round, they could only afford two or three bins between Read More
It seems odd that with the environment going to hell in a handcart; it still seems beyond the wit of humans to solve what is surely a simple problem – the littering of cigarette butts.Read More
Another attempt is being made in the US to deal with cigarette-butt litter. The question is, can the anti-litter campaigners carry smokers along with them? Read More
It was inevitable that tobacco manufacturers, which have allowed themselves to become sitting ducks in respect of litter, would be targeted by those with concerns for the environment. Read More
One way to fill up your jails is to incarcerate people for minor offences, such as dropping litter, including cigarette butts.Read More
If civic-minded citizens didn’t pay for the costs created by those less civic-minded, there would be no tobacco-company donations to the EU for fighting the illegal trade – and no prisons.Read More
