Cigarette butts are the forgotten plastic pollution – and they could be killing our plants

It’s amazing how quickly people have ditched plastic straws thanks to campaigns to discourage us from using such “pointless plastic”. Yet rarely do we hear about a much more common source of plastic pollution. Cigarette butts or filters are the most littered item on the planet.

 Foes Of The Single-Use Filter — Meet The New Yorkers Who Want To Eliminate The Cigarette Butt

Thrown out of windows or flicked on the ground and stamped underfoot like in the movies — cigarette butts are small, but they are still the most common form of litter, according to new research commissioned last year by the nonprofit Keep America Beautiful, and they are anything but benign.

 How the pandemic got people smoking again

Lung health is at risk from Covid-19. Naturally, some Americans turned to cigarettes.

 What everyone gets wrong about the history of cigarettes

It's natural to think that cigarettes became enormously popular worldwide because they're so addictive — or because tobacco companies were so good at marketing and advertising. Those things no doubt played a role. But there's another, often-forgotten factor that helped cigarettes conquer the world: technology. The introduction of cigarette-rolling machines in the 19th century was a truly world-changing invention that had an enormous impact on public health...

13 Serious Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Environment and Human Health

Cigarette smoking causes environmental pollution by releasing toxic air pollutants into the atmosphere. The cigarette butts also litter the environment, and the toxic chemicals in the residues seep into soils and waterways, thereby causing soil and water pollution, respectively.

Cigarette Butts Are Toxic Waste

The production of cigarettes is very damaging to the environment. It is estimated that one tree is consumed for every 300 cigarettes produced – that’s one tree for every one and a half cartons.

Cigarette Companies Are Caught Between Death and Taxes

Tobacco giants are counting on sales of noncombustible products to replace carcinogenic smokes. Government duties will influence how quickly that happens.

Cigarettes as Control

How grief spurred me to start smoking—and to quit.

Cigarettes have a significant impact on the environment, not just health

The devastating impact of the tobacco industry on human health is well known. However, a new report systematically outlines for the first time the substantial impact of the tobacco industry on the environment.

High schoolers are ditching cigarettes — but embracing e-cigarettes

E-cigarettes may be safer than cigarettes — but they're not harmless.

If You Took The Nicotine Out Of Cigarettes, Would Fewer People Want To Smoke?

Nicotine is the addictive component in tobacco, but it doesn't cause most smoking-related diseases, such as lung cancer. That distinction belongs to the thousands of other compounds released when smokers light up cigarettes.

Making the tobacco industry pay for cigarette litter could stop 4.5 billion butts polluting the Australian environment

Cigarette butts with filters are the most commonly littered item worldwide, with a staggering 4.5 trillion of them tossed into the environment each year. This is a huge problem; many end up on beaches and in the ocean, and the tar from burnt tobacco in the filter can be toxic to wildlife.

Meet the People Who Believe Cigarettes Are Healthy

The theory espoused by people like Joey is more nuanced than simply “tobacco is good.” Instead, the group generally claims that tobacco’s dangers are over-magnified, while its medicinal benefits are under-represented—and what’s interesting is the argument isn’t totally without merit.

Smoking Cigarettes (My Circumstances Made Me Do It)

So why isn’t tobacco use evenly spread across the population? In part, it’s because the more challenges a person faces in life, the more likely they are to smoke.

Tobacco companies have made cigarettes deadlier than ever

Over the last five decades, the tobacco industry has engineered cigarettes to be more addictive — and has also made them more dangerous.