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Cigarette filters produced for Kent Micronite from 1952-1954 contained crocidolite asbestos fibers, the most hazardous of the six types of asbestos.

The filter tip will keep you fit Kiwis loved their smokes. Tobacco use climbed from 0.9 kilgrams a year per person in 1890 to almost 1.4kg a year in 1920. But ready-made cigarettes were slow starters, making up less than half of all tobacco use until 1955. By then, three out of four Kiwi men smoked and a third of women were puffing on that Virginia tobacco. While filters had already made an appearance, early models were mostly crude stubs designed to hold in that lucrative leaf. Charlotte Curd/Stuff The modern cigarette filter, made from plastic fibres, has its origins in the 1950s.