At least one in three cigarettes worldwide is discarded onto the ground after smoking so that every year 340 to 680 million kilograms of tobacco waste end up in the environment and sooner or later in our waterways
It's just not that good
We extracted 371 observations from 25 prospective cohort studies and 53 casecontrol studies across 25 locations (Supplementary Table 3) 5,6,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100,101,102,103,104,105,106,107
While it would decrease organised criminals' profit margins, black-market sellers are entrenched and consumers have normalised the purchasing of illegal cigarettes