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Posts Tagged ‘cigarettes’
Climate Change, Green living, Recycling, Weird Stuff, Wildlife & Flora, Apr 10th, 2010,
Everywhere you go, you can find cigarette butts lying around somewhere. They’re on the sidewalk, on the streets, strewn across parking lots and even throughout parks, beaches, and our own backyards. It doesn’t matter if there’s a trash can or other cigarette disposal bin nearby, people flick them wherever they feel like it and it doesn’t do anyone any bit of good. Fortunately, one company has come up with an interesting solution for this problem. Since it’s highly unlikely that we will see thousands (or millions) of people quit smoking cold turkey and also unlikely that they’ll stop carelessly flicking…
Tags: biodegrade, cigarettes, filters, Green Butts, litter, natural, organic, Pollution, problem, seeds, solution, trash
Climate Change, Green living, Health, Pollution, Jul 31st, 2009,
“Smoking can kill you,” said then-16-year-old model/actress Brooke Shields in a 1981 US Congressional hearing, “and if you’ve been killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.” Everybody knows that smoking is bad for you, even young Ms. Shields whose vacuous words have been circulating the Internet for years. Smoking can cause heart attacks, lung diseases and all kinds of cancers. Yes, smoking is harmful to your health, yet people continue to smoke. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that over 15 billion cigarettes are consumed each day. Smokers insist that they are not harming anyone else, except…
Tags: carbon dioxide, cigarettes, Climate change, global warming, smoking, tobacco
