[34] Moreover, cigarette filters enriched in toxic substances that enter environmental waterbodies have been shown to be increasingly colonized by potentially pathogenic bacteria including those displaying antibiotic resistance, as these are particularly well adapted to the adverse conditions on the filters
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Compared with smoking regular cigarettes, the authors arrived at some conclusions about smoking filtered cigarettes with ventilation holes