In the late 1960s and early 1970s, there was a move to make people aware of the health hazards associated with smoking cigarettes. Among these health hazards were heart disease, emphysema, and cancer. In order to make cigarettes healthier for smokers and to combat further government intervention into the industry, cigarette manufacturers inserted filters on one end of the cigarette. These filters kept some of the tars and nicotine from being inhaled by the consumer. The filters, then, made the cigarette marginally “safer”. (Clark)
In creating these filters, however, the cigarette industry created an entirely new problem for the world. Cigarettes cause many problems for health, but we already knew that. Not many people think about the effect they have on the environment. People believe that they are not harming anything because a cigarette butt is so small. “With the flick of a butt, far reaching, devastating consequences can occur, or absolutely nothing can happen.” (EcoGreenBags) There are, however, some things in the cigarette filter inside of the cigarette butt that are not biodegradable, so a part of each cigarette butt will remain forever. Cigarette butts thrown out of car windows are also the leading cause of litter, creating millions of pounds of trash. (Mulch)
Once a cigarette butt is thrown out of a car window, there are a few different paths it may take.
If a cigarette butt is not properly put out, it may burn for up to three more hours. This is the leading cause of forest fires and bush fires. (Alipio)
Once a cigarette is released from a car window, it could travel down through the sewer, and from there, out to rivers, streams, and eventually out to the ocean. Fish easily mistake cigarette ...
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For those who smoke cigarettes and will continue to do so, making a switch to smoking e-cigarettes would be a safer alternative. Goniewicz is a cancer researcher in the Department of Health Behavior at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York (Reuters, 2014). He and his colleagues conducted two studies of secondhand smoke exposure to e-cigarette vapors in a laboratory and the results were published in Nicotine and Tobacco Research (Reuters, 2014). In the first study they had an electronic machine that generated the vapors in an enclosed space and then they proceeded to measure the amount of nicotine and other potentially harmful gasses and particle that were in the air along with carbon monoxide that was generated. In the second study they used five men who smoked cigarettes on a regular basis and also smoked e-cigarettes. Each man entered a room and smoked his usual...
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The kinds of pollution caused by smoking outdoors include, air pollution, land pollution, water pollution and ecosystem pollution. The effect of smoking on air pollution is quite clear. The harmful chemicals produced from smoke floats around the air causing pollution. Pollution caused by cigarette litter is land pollution, water pollution and ecosystem pollution. Before talking about the details of how cigarette litter causes various pollutions, it is important to understand that it takes more than 10 years for cigarette butts to naturally disappear. When people throwaway the ashes and cigarette butts on the ground, they can start bush fire. Also, harmful chemicals still remain in the cigarette butts that the chemicals are absorbed into the land polluting soil and trees. These carelessly thrown away butts sometimes travel with water such as rain and end up in places such as sewerage or rivers. This contaminates the water people will later use. Polluting water also leads to pollution of ecosystem. As the water is influenced by the harmful chemicals, fish and plants living underwater are affected by the chemicals. Also, there may be incidents of fish eating cigarette butts. This is also possible for animals living on land. Some animals mistaken butts as food and eat them, which is very bad for their health. There are squirrels, cats and dogs on our campus. Imagine these animals eating butts as food and getting sick. Smoking boxes can provide smokers with a designated place to throw away ashes and cigarette butts and eventually decrease chances of pollution on
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Smoking is the cause of numerous citizens of the United States dying prematurely. The CDC (2014) explains, “smoking causes more deaths each year than: human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, and firearm-related incidents”. Some deaths are unavoidable such as a vehicular accident, but a death by a cigarette is because the results of the decision the user made. Cassidy and Tramarchi (2011) describe, “Ci...
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Polosa, Riccardo, et al. "A Fresh Look at Tobacco Harm Reduction: The Case for the Electronic Cigarette." Harm Reduction Journal 10.1 (2013): 1-11. Academic Search Complete. Web. 2 Nov. 2013.
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