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by runamok
on Sun Nov 30, 2008 8:21 pm |
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Yup....apparently anti now employs butt experts.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus30-2008nov30,1,1983324.column
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"For people who smoke, tossing a butt on the ground is part of the whole ritual," said Thomas Novotny, a professor of epidemiology at UC San Francisco who focuses on cigarette butts. "It's not considered litter."
And this sounds scaaaaary:
According to Novotny, the typical cigarette butt contains nicotine, arsenic, mercury, lead, cadmium, acetone and vinyl chloride.
"There's a simple answer to this," Novotny said. "Stop selling filtered cigarettes. The product can be altered to eliminate this form of pollution."
Take away the filter, he said, and you accomplish two things: You make the tobacco taste stronger and thus deter some people from smoking, and you eliminate one of the world's chief causes of litter.
Novotny, who will move in January from UCSF to San Diego State University, is convening a panel of experts next month in San Francisco to discuss legislative possibilities.
A panel of butt experts? Wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall at that meeting. |
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by gilster
on Mon Dec 01, 2008 6:46 am |
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by runamok
on Mon Dec 01, 2008 8:33 am |
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| Yeah....I checked out the same Bio page last night. Hard-core health nazi all the way. |
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by jsidney
on Wed Dec 03, 2008 6:11 am |
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| There is a poll attached to the article. Vote "No". |
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by gilster
on Wed Dec 03, 2008 6:40 am |
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Would you support a $1 deposit fee for cigarette butts?
78.3 %
78%
Absolutely. Anything to encourage smokers to clean up after themselves.
7.2 %
7%
Perhaps, or maybe just placing more ashtrays around town.
14.5 %
15%
No. Leave smokers alone.
764 total responses
Well, Golly Gee, there is a poll there....WOW |
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