Even so, the media campaign and pressure from wives, daughters, mothers and girlfriends does appear to be paying off, at least a little
Although this is not the ideal scenario, given these criteria and the robustness of the underlying methodologies, we consider the indirect estimates to be a reliable proxy for assessing cigarette butt contamination levels globally, particularly in a context where harmonized monitoring is still lacking
The tobacco industry has a similar environmental impact to 16 million cars
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