Life Cycle of Tobacco
This plant related to smoking is a significant environmental hazard due to its many impacts throughout its life cycle
What is the tobacco plant?
Waste like cigarette butts, tobacco packaging, cannabis containers, and e-cigarette batteries are all considered this type of waste
What is Tobacco Product Waste?
These are the different types of smoke that are emitted from tobacco and e-cigarette products
What is firsthand smoke, secondhand smoke, and thirdhand smoke?
These are single most littered plastic in California
What are cigarette butts?
This product can come in a variety of shapes, colors, and designs, and if improperly discarded, can lead to hazardous electronic litter
What are e-cigarettes?
These are often cut down to clear space for tobacco plant growth, and also used as fuel for curing tobacco
What are forests and trees?
Filtered cigarette butts are dangerous when littered because they can breakdown into this type of waste
What are microplastics?
Mainstream smoke makes up this percentage of secondhand smoke
What is 15%?
Filters are included in this percentage of cigarettes
What is 99%?
Both middle and high schools are facing challenges with e-cigarette waste due to an increase of use in this population
Who are students (or people under 18)?
This is often the final step of the life cycle of tobacco
What is Tobacco Product Waste?
These types of tobacco product waste are called “the cigarette butts of the future”
What e-cigarette and vape cartridges?
This type of smoke is made up of chemicals that are in the form of particles and gas
What is secondhand smoke?
Cigarette filters are made up of this special, nonbiodegradable material
What is cellulose acetate?
Exposure to secondhand smoke is on the rise in California because of increased use of these types of products
What are e-cigarettes and marijuana?
These are the main ways tobacco is transported throughout the world
What are through trucks and ships?
E-cigarette are dangerous for the environment because they produce these special kinds of waste
What are hazardous electronic and chemical waste?
This type of smoke is released at a cooler temperature, meaning its chemicals are not burned, just released into the air
What is sidestream smoke?
Smokers discard at least this proportion of their cigarettes into the environment as part of habitual behavior
What is ⅔?
LGBTQ+ adults are this many times more likely to use e-cigarettes compared to straight adults
What is 2x?
These types of waste are byproducts of the manufacturing process of tobacco
What are effluent (sewage waste water) and toxic contaminants like nicotine, pesticides, and flavoring chemicals?
Clean up of Tobacco Product Waste costs communities this much money annually
What is $4 to 90 million annually?
The name thirdhand smoke can be misleading as it is not necessarily smoke, but is actually this kind of substance
What is toxic residue that sticks to surfaces, settles in dust, and embeds in materials after smoking stops?
Cigarette filters are particularly dangerous litter as they can retain these toxic substances.
What are TSNAs (tobacco-specific nitrosamines), heavy metals, and nicotine?
This number of middle and high school students still use at least one tobacco product, including e-cigarettes
What is 4.7 million?