Grist: Beijing`s smog is legendarily bad - on some days, stepping outside is kinda like trying to breathe in an ashtray. So it`s not that surprising that someone on Sina Weibo, China`s equivalent of Twitter, decided to deal with the pollution problem by shoving cigarette filters up his nose.
Rumors have spread over the Internet in China that taking cigarette filters and inserting one into each nostril can block the tiny PM2.5 particles of pollution that make breathing difficult and cause respiratory...