Carcinogenic Cigarette Butts Are 38% of America's Street Trash

Spring in Bloom | Daria Werbowy by Inez & Vinoodh for Vogue Paris April 2006Carcinogenic Cigarette Butts Are 38% of America’s Street Trash AOC Daily Musings

Each year more than 360 billion cigarettes are smoked in America. A new report released by the journal Tobacco Control — funded by the national public health foundation Legacy® — updates last year’s Earth Day post Please Stop Smoking and Carry a Ciggy Butt Bag Until You Do.

According to the new research, cigarette butts have potentially toxic effects on ecosystems. For example, in one laboratory test result, one cigarette butt soaked in a liter of water was lethal to half of the fish exposed.