4.5 trillion cigarette butts are littered worldwide each year. Yuck!
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Even brief contact with secondhand smoke can cause harm.
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A Report of the Surgeon General: How Tobacco Smoke
Causes Disease: What It Means to You. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on
Smoking and Health, 2010.
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Most cigarette filters are made of plastic, not cotton (like your shirt)
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Fundamental Research Centre,Luke, JA. Degradability of Filter Materials and Plastics Packaging. 1991 September 20. British American Tobacco.
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Cigarettes are the most Littered Item On Earth.
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"Top 10 Items Found." Ocean Conservancy. Web.
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Every day, cows release methane gas into the air. From you know where. But methane is also found somewhere else. Yesiree, in cigarette smoke.
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"Smoking and Tobacco Control." U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute. Risks Associated with Smoking Cigarettes with Low Machine-Measured Yields of Tar and Nicotine, 19 Nov. 2001. Report.
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Every year, 27 million pounds of pesticides are used to grow tobacco.
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"Fact Sheet: Environmental Impact of Tobacco." Multnomah County Health Department. March 2013. Web.
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There is no level or amount of exposure to secondhand smoke that is “risk-free.”
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“Smokefree Policies Improve Health.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 Dec. 2016,
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Second-hand smoke is more harmful for the environment than driving some cars. The air pollution from cigarettes is 10 times more than diesel cars.
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Invernizzi, G. "Particulate Matter from Tobacco versus Diesel Car Exhaust: An Educational Perspective." Tobacco Control 13.3 (2004): 219-21.
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1,685,068 pounds of toxic chemicals were released by tobacco product manufacturing facilities in the US in 2012. There goes the neighborhood!
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"TRI 312229: Other Tobacco Product Manufacturing Facilities (NAICS 312229)." A Center for Effective Government. Washington, DC. 2011. Web.
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One cigarette company biologically engineered tobacco plants to have twice the normal level of nicotine.
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"A Report of the Surgeon General." U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health. Other Effects. 2004: 616. Report.
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One cigarette butt soaked in a liter of water killed half of the fish exposed in a study in a laboratory setting.
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Slaughter, Elli, et al."Toxicity of cigarette butts, and their chemical components, to marine and freshwater fish." Tobacco Control. 2011. Web.
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Cigarettes aren’t biodegradable — which means they don’t fully break down over time.
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"The Environment vs Cigarettes." Quit Smoking Community. 27 Nov. 2013.
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An estimated 1.69 BILLION pounds of butts wind up as toxic trash each year.
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"Cigarette Butts Are Toxic Waste." California Department of Public Health. 2015. Web.
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