This Company Makes Hemp-Based Cigarette Filters

Originally created in 1936 by Hungarian inventor Boris Aivaz, the cigarette filter was initially designed as a marketing tactic to make smoking more appealing to women.

Veering from the traditional cigarettes that used no filter at all — which often led to specks of Tobacco being inhaled — the crepe-paper based cigarette filter was said to keep a woman’s lips “soft” and “alluring.”