Cigarette butts leak deadly toxins into the environment (IMAGE)

University of Gothenburg

Cigarette butts leak deadly toxins into the environment

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Smoking tobacco don’t stop being toxic when you put the cigarette out. Cigarette filters can contain 7,000 chemicals, as well as microplastics fibers, that risk leaking into the environment and causing harm.

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Bethanie Carney Almroth

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