Recycling Of Cigarette Butts

“ The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray ”. – David Byrne. Smoking has been an habit in teenagers and adults for a very long time and it is well known that it is harmful for them as well for the environment. Technology has advanced, and now there are electronic cigarettes, called E-cigarette, which are devices with battery that carry nicotine heated aersosol in a fashion that imitates common cigarettes, while carrying lower levels of toxins than a conventional lit cigarette. They can be used indoors, which allows smokers to get their fix wherever and whenever they want. A study from NBC News (Leshae) shows that electronic cigarettes are a technique for smokers to try quitting their addictions. Manufacturers consider that e-cigarattes are healthier than normal tobacco cigarattes, since smokers are inhaling vaporized nicotine rather of carcinogen-filled smoke. However, according to a Thomas Jefferson University Alumni article, some reseachers have found harmful ingredients in certain e-cigarettes, such as ethylene glycol poisoning, a primary ingredient in brake fluid and antifreeze. E-cigarettes mey seem like a healthier alternative to traditional cigarettes, nevertheless there is some research that proves the contrary and we still don’t know its long term effect.

In 2010, 87 percent of the world’s tobacco was grown in the developing world. A modern cigarette manufacturing machine can use up to 3.7 miles of paper an hour. Tobacco plants use more nutrients than many other crops, degrading the soil. Probably the most impact of a cigarette on the environment is the production of them. The land used to grow the crops could be put to better use by planting more trees or food production. Vast quantities of pesticides, fertilizer and herbicides are used on tobacco crops. Some crops require over a dozen applications of pesticides during the three-month growing period. Cigarette butts also do a lot of damage. You might think they were made of cotton, but actually they are often a form of plastic. The polymer acetate filters are comprised of thousands of fibers that can take up to 15-25 years to decompose. The residue from tobacco in the butts also releases toxins into the environment. Trillions of butts are discarded each year. Also discarded cigarettes are a major cause of forest fire in the USA, not to mention fatal house fires. Over 1000 Americans lose their lives a year from tobacco related fires.

Although it was not previously covered before, a FDA ruling in 2016 declared the Center for Tobacco Products the authority to cover any product that meets the requirements set to define a product as tobacco. Because of this, the FDA regulates the manufacture, packaging, labeling,

A cigarette has been an essential stress-relieving tool to many people even with the health risks and environmental damages cigarette is causing. However, in the past three years, the electronic cigarette has taken over on regular cigarette production. “People all over the world are making that switch from cigarettes to electronic cigarettes” (Healy 1). Electronic cigarette has been taking over in the past couple of years because of its positive reputation among the society that it tastes better, smells better, and less harmful to the smoker and the surroundings. However, not many have been educated about the electronic cigarette and its benefits toward the environment and human’s health. Because of the environmental damages and the health

A “Huffington Post” article states that one woman was admitted to the hospital with cardiac problems when her e-cigarette broke while she was in bed. In addition to e-cigarettes harming us, these nicotine filled devices harm the environment. Due to the lack of proper instructions on how to dispose these electronic cigarettes, smokers discard them incorrectly. E-cigs break when disposed incorrectly, which causes the nicotine to leak. This poisonous substance harms the area and animals around it. Think about how nicotine harms our bodies just by smoking it. What would happen if a living organism consumed

Compared with cigarette, e-cig is also a lot more environmentally friendly. Studies conducted by the University of Colorado shows that normal cigarette produces 12 time the thin air-debris that e-cig produces. From an individual perspective, the environmental damage of both e-cig and cigarette is almost negligible. However, from a global perspective, e-cig is significantly less harmful than

(“Nicotine and Tobacco: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia”) Users of nicotine will experience withdrawal symptoms two to three hours after the last time they smoked such as anxiety, depression, headaches, and drowsiness, difficulty sleeping, restless or frustration, making quitting this deadly drug extremely difficult. Other than nicotine there are over four thousand chemicals in cigarettes and more than sixty nine of these known chemicals are carcinogen. (“What’s in a Cigarette.”) Disgusting and extremely dangers chemicals are found in tobacco and cigarettes such as carbon monoxide, a poisonous gas that decreases the quantity of oxygen taken up by a individual's red blood cells, hydrogen cyanide, the poison used in gas chambers to kill soldiers during World War ll, cadmium, used in car batteries, butane, lighter fluid and tar, a brown and thick liquid that paralyses the cilia in the lungs. (“What's in cigarette smoke?”) If cigarettes were not accessible to the public, the addiction would not occur and the problems the thousands of life threating chemicals found in cigarettes would end.

The high mortality rates are the primary reason why many people are actively petitioning for the universal ban of tobacco. In a recent article published by the American Lung Association they found approximately 600 ingredients in cigarettes. When burned, they create more than 7,000 chemicals. Roughly 69 of those chemicals are known to be poisonous, cause cancer, and many other diseases. Tobacco usage accounts for more than 30% of

Cigarettes come from a trend that turns into a habit; That is harmful to human health not only for direct smokers, but also more severely for passive smokers.

The body's response to a large portion of the chemicals in conventional tobacco smoke causes durable irritation, which thus prompts perpetual ailments like bronchitis, emphysema, and heart disease.5 Since e-cigarettes additionally contain many the same harmful chemicals, there is no motivation to trust that they will essentially diminish the dangers for these illnesses. There are no long haul concentrates to move down cases that the vapor from e-cigarettes is less destructive than ordinary smoke. Growth takes years to create, and e-cigarettes were just as of late acquainted with the United States. It is practically difficult to decide whether an item expands a man's danger of disease or not until the point that the item has been around for no less than 15-20 years.

In another sample tested by the FDA, diethylene glycol was present. This substance is a toxic chemical commonly found in antifreeze (Torrejon). In addition, the amount of formaldehyde contained in about ten inhalations of an e-cigarette surpassed the concentration of formaldehyde in a tobacco cigarette at one hundred micrograms to seventy-six micrograms (Yoneyama). Also detected were glyoxal and acrolein. These toxins are feared to cause inflamed bronchial tubes, coughing, irritated mucus membranes in organs, and even lead to reduction in lung functioning (Yoneyama). Lastly, A California Department of Public Health report written last year states that cancer-causing toxins can be emitted from an electronic cigarette and can hook users on nicotine (Cornwell). “Some people say they are safer than combustible cigarettes, but safer doesn’t always mean safe,” stated Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society. He and other health experts worry about the new alternative and believe that much more research is needed. Due to the staggeringly large amount of health risks tied to each device, regulations need to be heavily increased. Many are unaware of the burden the electronic cigarette bears, and restricting purchases of the product can lead to a greater improvement in the lives of countless citizens.

The majority of people throw their cigarette buds onto the ground after smoking, this can cause countless problems to many different living things. For example, wild animals could think the cigarette butt is food and eat it. The animal cannot digest the buds which can make the animal sick and it could lead to fatal circumstances. Cigarette butts do not decompose which can lead the buds getting carried into our water systems and it can contaminate our water. In 2005 alone 135 million pounds of cigarette butts were dumped in the U.S. (Cigarette Butts Are Toxic Waste1. (n.d.). Retrieved September 12, 2015, from http://www.tobaccofreeca.com/smoking-problem/impact/environment/). This amount of trash on a college campus would give the campus an unappealing appearance. Air pollution from cigarettes is greater than a diesel car exhaust. Smoking is the silent killer of our

Did you know that each cigarette reduces your lifespan by 11 minutes? Did you know that cigarettes contain over 4,800 chemicals, one of them being arsenic which is used in rat poison? Cigarette smoking is a choice for many people however it affects everybody in the world even if you’re a non-smoker. Cigarettes are detrimental to individuals and the population as a whole for the reasons that it negatively effects the body and health, the environment and the economy.

In the past few decades extensive research has gone into studying the effects of cigarettes on air quality. Many carcinogens and particulate matter (PM) exist in the second-hand smoke. The results from these studies have led to anti-smoking campaigns across the country; consequently changing the cultural acceptance of smoking into a cultural taboo. Not only did smoking affect the health of the consumer but conventional cigarettes also spewed several toxic chemicals into the environment that affected other people’s health. The environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) has been associated with cardiovascular problems, asthma, respiratory infections, and lung cancer. Consequently, this has led to the ban of smoking in many public places like public buildings, bars, and restaurants (Schober et al.). Unfortunately, the nicotine in cigarettes makes this product very addictive and for several years many people wondered if a product could be invented that simulated smoking but without all the chemicals.

The tobacco industry is a very unethical industry, due to the long term effects of tobacco on humans. The industry also does not assess the ethical and social responsibility the best way that it should. There are many factors that make the industry unethical; some of the reasons are the way the cigarette companies around the world Advertise, the way governments and cigarette companies make a huge profit from the sales of cigarettes, and the labeling health risks. I do believe however that there is something that the tobacco companies can do to better their strategy as far as their ethics go. I think that they should, always be looking for the best interest on their consumers, as well as advertise strictly