(Click the above link to view an in depth history of the cigarette filter) The Filter Fraud Although attaching a filtering device to the end of the cigarette that is held in the lips may have originated in the late-19th century with the use of cotton wool or a piece of net or webbing secured over one end of the cigarette (according to an item, New Things: Web-Tipped Cigarettes, in the January 5, 1885 issue of the British trade journal TOBACCO ), the main purpose was to prevent fibres of tobacco and dust being drawn into the mouth. A filter made of crepe paper was invented in 1925
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