Do Cigarette Butts Litter Your City?

Cigarette buts get littered all over the place. Very few smokers throw the butts in dustbins. While smoking in a car, or strolling in town, cigarette butts are thrown around, while smoking. They litter Chicago’s fantastic beaches. They pollute city.

World over smokers tend to toss cigarettes butts. Such litter causes environmental problems. Better enforcement of laws are required to reduce the negative environmental effect of cigarette butts’ litter. Additional taxes go in cleaning up such environmental pollution.

The average butt contains chemicals, which are health hazardous. These cigarettes butts are often thrown into a side- walk, which drain into lake and seas. The paper of the butts are biodegradable, whereas their cellulose acetate filters are not so. Cigarette butts pollute many water ways. Tossing butts also cause many forest fires.

Cigarette butts discarded in ashtray can be a health risk to children.

Smoking itself is a problem, since inhaling the smoke can lead to many diseases. But cigarette butts are equally a problem as they not only dirty the surroundings, but are chemical pollutants, which can affect the environment. Smokers need to be careful while disposing off a cigarette. They should be eco-friendly.

One Response to “Do Cigarette Butts Litter Your City?”

  1. Allan Says:
    October 13th, 2008 at 3:51 am

    I totally agree. This is a big problem for the cities.
    I’m from Toronto, Canada. It’s a very clean city but people who smoke looks like do not care about it too much. They just don
    t think about it. I mean I can see people right in downtown throwing cigarettes buts anyplace they happened to be and that is disgusting. And there’s no excuses here my friends, really – the garbage bin is right in front of you! Make an extra step and kill your freaking cigarette in it. It really makes me sick when I see that happening. I also used to smoke but I always tried to respect other people and my city. Folks, please do not litter!

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