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Whose butt is it? tobacco industry research about smokers and cigarette butt waste

BACKGROUND: Cigarette filters are made of non-biodegradable cellulose acetate. As much as 766 571 metric tons of butts wind up as litter worldwide per year. Numerous proposals have been made to prevent or mitigate cigarette butt pollution, but none has been effective; cigarette butts are consistentl...

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Autores principales: Smith, Elizabeth A, Novotny, Thomas E
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Group 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3088475/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21504919
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tc.2010.040105