Cigarette waste as sign of human and environmental danger
Recent research in the US shows that cigarette waste, including that from e-cigarettes, is an important indicator of trends in youth smoking. This is especially critical as youth have been targeted on social media platforms to use e-cigarettes. In addition, new forms of tobacco products have been flavored to appeal to youth and the waste from these products show which flavored products youth prefer. Filters from combustible cigarettes and e-cigarette waste of various types is dangerous to the environment and efforts to ban/limit these kinds of wastes in Thailand is ongoing. As indicated below, calls to eliminate these plastic and chemical/metal wastes are now being made since these wastes are known to be environmentally dangerous.
See related news:
Crist C. E-cigarette, tobacco, cannabis ‘litter’ studied at Bay-area high schools. Reuters Health News, October 16, 2019. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-ecig-litter/e-cigarette-tobacco-cannabis-litter-studied-at-bay-area-high-schools-idUSKBN1WV2QI
Van Schalkwyk MCI, Novotny TE, McKee M. No more butts (Editorial). BMJ 2019; 367: l5890. https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l5890
See also: Cigarette filters do not provide health benefits; https://www.ashscotland.org.uk/media/749046/27-cigarette-filters-and-health-feb18.pdf
by Dr.Stephen Hamann
