Glass fiber contamination of cigarette filters : an additional health risk to the smoker?

(Disponible en anglais seulement.)

Tobacco in the Eclipse cigarette is heated rather than burned. The authors discuss the glass fibres, fragments and particles that were observed in and around the filter of the Eclipse. The exposure and suspected inhalation of glass fibres may negate the reduced risk Eclipse cigarettes purport to have.

http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/cgi/reprint/7/11/967.pdf

Comment: When I think of all the horrible things in cigarettes, I can't say glass fibres has ever come to mind. Scary.