4.5 trillion cigarette butts are littered worldwide each year. Yuck!
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Toxins seep out of cigarette butts, which contaminate water.
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Barnes, Richard L. “Regulating the Disposal of Cigarette Butts as Toxic Hazardous Waste.” Tobacco Control 20.Suppl_1 (2011): i45–i48. PMC. Web. 22 Mar. 2017.
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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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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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Chemicals that seep out of cigarette butts can be acutely toxic to fish and micro-organisms.
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Micevska, T., et al. "Variation in, and Causes of, Toxicity of Cigarette Butts to a Cladoceran and Microtox." Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 50(2). Feb. 2006: 205-12. Web.
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600 MILLION TREES are chopped down every year for Big Tobacco.
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"Tobacco and the environment." Action on Smoking and Health. Sept. 2015. Web.
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One tree is killed for just 15 packs of Cigarettes.
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"Billions of trees. Millions of cigarette butts. One dangerous product." California Department of Public Health. 2015. 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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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 are the most Littered Item On Earth.
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"Top 10 Items Found." Ocean Conservancy. Web.
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Smoke-free policies are more likely to protect white-collar employees than those working blue-collar jobs.
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“Get the Facts.” Smoke-Free ATL - Everyone in ATL Has the Right to Breathe Smoke-Free Air. 2018.
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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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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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