# Carbon cigarette filter

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carbon-cigarette-filter/203352>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 23, 2003, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carbon-cigarette-filter/203352 "2003-09-23T17:05:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![drmark2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carbon-cigarette-filter/203352/1 "2003-09-23T17:05:38Z")

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Is there any known advantage to smoking a cigarette with a filter impregnated with activated charcoal, or with an activated charcoal segment in it?

Just curious…

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carbon-cigarette-filter/203352/2 "2003-09-23T17:20:36Z")

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You have something to hold up when the “Show us your Lark Pack” truck goes by.

[sub]_Does that date me or what??_[/sub]