Bloody filter
A major row is brewing within the tobacco industry after a new cigarette brand launched in Greece captured 6% of the market in the first month, all because of the health claims made for its filter. BF brand, made by local manufacturer Sekap, contains a new, three-part filter, the Biofilter, whose central section contains carbon impregnated with haemoglobin.
According to the two former medical researchers who invented it, the filter carries out chemical reactions which otherwise take place in the body. Golden Filter, the company set up to produce their invention, explained to Tobacco Reporter (February 1998), a tobacco industry trade journal, that the filter can be considered “an artificial lung”, whose iron content (in …
