The 2020 Keep America Beautiful survey estimates that the actual number of cigarette butts polluting our environment is closer to 9.7 billion cigarette butts polluting roadways and waterways combined , along with 392 million pieces of other tobacco-related products and packaging, making up nearly 20% of all U.S
In a recent opinion piece published in The BMJ, the author wrote that smoking is experiencing a "pop-culture revival" that is an "unwelcome throw-back for public health." "This normalization of smoking risks is re-igniting a harmful cultural association between cigarettes and coolness, to which young people are particularly vulnerable," the article says
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