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For decades, the tobacco industry has leveraged the concept of filters to perpetuate smoking, a tactic that Stanford historian Robert Proctor has described as the deadliest fraud in the history of human civilization. In these final days of negotiations, we must ensure that this deadliest fraud does not extend its reach by failing to include cigarette filters on the list of banned plastics in the Global Plastics Treaty

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The key to note here is that not only does smoking affect reproductive health, but overall health negatively as well

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This finding reflects a decrease in smoking levels possibly due to the lack of access to products secondary to lockdown restrictions, as well as information dissemination efforts linking tobacco use with worst outcomes for COVID-19 patients (8)

This is an alarm