A French nationwide study published in the Environmental Research journal suggested that agricultural practices and pesticides used in vineyards could have been linked to the occurrence of Parkinson’s disease.
According to PAN UK’s findings, there seems to be a rising trend in the occurrence of pesticide combinations in food. The total percentage of fruit and vegetables with residues from multiple pesticides has consistently stayed below 48%, but this year it unexpectedly spiked to an astonishing 53%.
I found one source! It was sponsored by the British Tobacco Company, lol.
Nah, it’s difficult to find recent data of it - because I get the impression from the papers I have found - the idea was thrown out as a marketing ploy in the 50s and has no significant impact on risk.
Instead it just makes cigarettes worse for the environment - because the filters don’t decompose.
I mean it serves a purpose, it’s so you don’t get pieces of tobacco in your mouth. But other then that, I don’t think it does much at all. The amount it obstructs could surely be counteracted by being able to smoke more tobacco by not having a burning ember near your fingers.