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    In Mexico, 50 billion cigarette butts are thrown away each year, polluting water sources and harming wildlife. Each cigarette butt leaves behind 8-15 liters of water pollution and cigarette butts are a direct cause of deaths in marine mammals and seabirds. Studies show that more than 4 billion cigarette butts end up as land pollution or cause wildfires in Mexico each year. The pollution occurs because natural ecosystems cannot break down the toxic chemicals in cigarettes that enter the environment.

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    In Mexico, 50 billion cigarette butts are thrown away each year, polluting water sources and harming wildlife. Each cigarette butt leaves behind 8-15 liters of water pollution and cigarette butts are a direct cause of deaths in marine mammals and seabirds. Studies show that more than 4 billion cigarette butts end up as land pollution or cause wildfires in Mexico each year. The pollution occurs because natural ecosystems cannot break down the toxic chemicals in cigarettes that enter the environment.

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    Impacto Ambiental

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    In Mexico, 50 billion cigarette butts are thrown away each year, polluting water sources and harming wildlife. Each cigarette butt leaves behind 8-15 liters of water pollution and cigarette butts are a direct cause of deaths in marine mammals and seabirds. Studies show that more than 4 billion cigarette butts end up as land pollution or cause wildfires in Mexico each year. The pollution occurs because natural ecosystems cannot break down the toxic chemicals in cigarettes that enter the environment.

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    ENVIRONMENT

    OF CIGARETTE

    POLLUTION

    In Mexico, where Cigarette butts are a


    there are 14.3 direct cause of deaths
    million smokers, in cetaceans and
    50 billion butts
    seabirds.
    are thrown away
    each year.

    Negative effects

    In Mexico, one cigarette butt leaves 8 Studies indicate that in Mexico


    to 15 liters of in seawater pollution more than 4 billion cigarette butts
    and 50 liters of contamination in end up on land pollution or are the
    drinking water pollution. cause of natural disaster be like
    forest fires.

    Global Warming Pollution occurs because


    The World Health ecosystems cannot get rid
    Organization (WHO) warned of the substances
    that cigarettes contribute introduced by cigarettes
    to global warming in into the environment.
    countries like Mexico
    where most of the plants
    exist.

    The Ozone Layer Depletion

    It is in position #18 of the most polluting


    industries in Mexico. It contributes to climate
    change because the green house gas emissions
    from that industry are 84 million tons a year of
    carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere.

    The solution is not to smoke!

    Support efforts to make public places smoke-free


    and increase taxes on tobacco products.

    Bibliography
    "Cigarette industry contributes to global warming" - Webcams de México. (2022, Integrantes:
    June 30). Retrieved September 6, 2022, from Webcams de México website:
    Frida Verónica Gonzalez Medina
    https://webcamsdemexico.com/cambio-climatico/industria-del-tabaco-
    contribuye-al-calentamiento-global/ Oyuki Berenica Gonzalez Noh
    ‌"Smoking also harms the planet". (2020). Retrieved September 6, 2022, from
    Unam.mx website: https://www.dgcs.unam.mx/boletin/bdboletin/2022_441.html

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