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filter tip
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filter tip
1. an attachment to the mouth end of a cigarette for trapping impurities such as tar during smoking. It consists of any of various dense porous substances, such as cotton
2. a cigarette having such an attachment


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Lung cancer deaths in men have doubled from the 1960s to the '80s - and have jumped almost six-fold in women - despite the introduction of filter-tipped, lower-tar cigarettes, which were shown in some studies to decrease cancer risk.
 
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