MasterCard, Visa and American Express are promoting contactless versions of their credit cards, which only need to be held near a special reader at the checkout counter for a sale to go through, making the standard card swiper no longer necessary.
Filters in a new and used cigarette. Cigarette filters are an essential non-tobacco part of a filter cigarette, and have a profound effect on the yield and composition of cigarette smoke. The filter may be made from cellulose acetate fibre, paper or activated charcoal.
Those associations may blur the potential for cleaner nicotine to lure smokers away from cigarettes. Munafo is questioning the notion that a nicotine addiction is, in itself, bad. At a smoking laboratory in Munafo's department, people who are still hooked on cigarettes smoke under controlled conditions.