4.5 trillion cigarette butts are littered worldwide each year. Yuck!
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Secondhand smoke contains 7,000 chemicals, many of which are toxic and can cause cancer.
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Guide to the 50th Anniversary Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health, July 2015.
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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 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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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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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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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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Acetaldehyde is in tobacco smoke. Acetaldehyde is a hazardous air pollutant.
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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: 179.
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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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Secondhand smoke causes more than 41,000 deaths among nonsmoking adults every single year.
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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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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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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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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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