WATCH | Biodegradable cigarettes might be the answer in taking the pain out of the butt
14 April 2019 - 00:00
After starting out selling roll-ups at a music festival, two university friends are lighting up the smoking market with what they claim are the world's first eco-friendly craft cigarettes.
Adam van Wyngaarden and Davide Scott, both 23, who founded Smokey Treats three years ago, claim to have found a solution to one of the world's biggest litter problems by using fully biodegradable materials.
The filters in their Woodland cigarettes are made from wooden strands instead of plastic fibres, and the additive-free tobacco is wrapped in unbleached paper...
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