All of Us Smokers and Non-Smokers alike Can See the Problem "No Smoking" Indoors Has Caused Outdoors.
Thousands of Cigarette Butts are littering our communities' parks and sidewalks. We need to take charge of this overlooked problem before it is too late. Is it possible to keep the cigarette litter off the ground?
(PRWEB) May 18, 2004 -- Smoke Free Indoors are becoming more and more common
in North America. No Smoking Indoors is a great benefit for non-smokers,
children, and even smokers who want to enjoy a clean health environment during
lunch, or seeing a film, or indulging in a romantic evening out with that
special someone. You can enjoy that meal without having cigarette smoke blown in
your face (yes I am guilty). But as we all know, solving one problem creates a
different problem. All of us smokers are being pushed outside, and where do we
put our cigarette butts? On the ground? In the flower pot? Flick it on the
grass? Or maybe even stepping on it in an attempt to make it go away. Does it
really go away? How many thousands of cigarette butts do you see littered in
front of your favorite restaurant. Or, in the spring when the snow melts, what
is that growing on the grass?? Are those little flowers trying to sprout...??
Look Closer... WOW, those are Thousands and Thousands of cigarette butts that
have been littered over the seasons, and sprouting an unsightly sight in the
spring. Where did they all come from!? I don't want my children playing in that
park. What if their curiosity leads them to ingesting one of those harmful
cigarette butts?
It takes 7 years for 1 cigarette butts to decompose.
Each year, 4.7 Trillion cigarette butts are littered into our environment. That
means, in 7 years there is a build up of over 30 trillion cigarette butts before
decomposition takes effect. Think about how many thousands of gallons of
chemicals are being released into our environment from those cigarette butts
over time.
The public has to become aware of the dangers a tiny cigarette
butt causes to our environment. If everyone could take that extra step and
dispose of there cigarette butt properly, we would have a brighter future for
our children.
Cigarette Disposal Units need to become more readily
available for public use in all of our communities.
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/5/prweb127139.htm