Factoid/2008/12/01
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Each Year, Billions of Cigarette Butts Litter Our Landscape
- "...the nearly 370 billion filtered cigarettes smoked in the U.S. each year result in about 135 million pounds of butts littering the landscape. Worldwide, the more than 5 trillion cigarettes consumed annually create more than 2 billion pounds of butts. ... According to Novotny, the typical cigarette butt contains nicotine, arsenic, mercury, lead, cadmium, acetone and vinyl chloride." - excerpt from this Los Angeles Times article.
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