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The unfortunate tenacity of the most common piece of litter

sudshr47 December 15, 2018

Eight years ago, in the town of Van Buren, Missouri, newly retired resident John Pope walked six blocks and picked up 1,085 cigarette butts.

The unsightly, unpleasant litter problem — as we’re all acutely aware — isn’t confined to Pope’s quiet community in southern Missouri.

Cigarette butts have the proud distinction of being the most common form of litter on America’s beaches. Some 6 trillion cigarettes are manufactured on Earth each year, and between 750 million to 1,500 million pounds of cigarette butt waste — largely made of a plastic-like material called cellulose acetate — are ultimately flung to the ground annually, according to the World Health Organization. Read more…

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The FDA is majorly restricting the sale of flavored Juul pods to fight teen vaping

sudshr47 November 9, 2018

It’s like taking candy away from a baby.
The FDA will move to ban Juul’s fun flavors from most convenience stores to fight teen use of the product, reports the New York Times. The agency will also require stricter age verification measures for buying…

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Trump’s FDA chief challenges cigarette makers with giant nicotine cut

sudshr47 March 16, 2018

Big Tobacco is getting an unprecedented challenge from the Trump administration.

For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed slashing nicotine — you know, that highly addictive ingredient in cigarettes — to negligible, nearly non-addictive levels. FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, whom President Trump nominated to the powerful post in 2017, announced on Thursday the start of regulatory actions he said would decrease smoking rates in the U.S. from 15 percent to 1.4 percent.

Gottlieb said previous efforts to curb smoking, though “aggressive,” still result in 480,000 American deaths each year. Read more…

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