Cigarette's porous end
A filter tip is the porous end of a cigarette designed to trap some tar and particles before smoke reaches the mouth.
Filter-tipped cigarettes became standard in the mid-20th century as manufacturers marketed them as safer alternatives to unfiltered cigarettes.
The term also refers to the cigarette itself: She smoked filter tips exclusively.
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Cigarette's porous end
A filter tip is the porous end of a cigarette designed to trap some tar and particles before smoke reaches the mouth.
Filter-tipped cigarettes became standard in the mid-20th century as manufacturers marketed them as safer alternatives to unfiltered cigarettes.
The term also refers to the cigarette itself: She smoked filter tips exclusively.
1. cigarette — tar, File bundling utility; nicotine (Addictive tobacco alkaloid); tobacco (Dried smoking leaf); smoking (Inhaling burning tobacco); inhale · menthol · pack · lighter · ashtray · puff · drag · butt · light up · smoke break
CIGARETTE END POSITIONfilter tip ≠ ember Glowing coal fragment; cherry · coal · business end
cigarette typefilter tip ≠ filterless Having no strainer; straight · roll-your-own · regular · Lucky Strike
filter, tip, filters, filtered, filtering, filterable, filtration, filtrate, tips
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