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Smoking celebrities are not all a pain in the butt

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Celebrities are in the line of fire for smoking on screen. Are you lured? Maybe not, and I’m not either. Concerns are raised, rules are made, however, nothing is really working to extinguish the butts forever. More and more smokers are joining the coterie.

The Butt problem

The butts out thrown are adding up to the landfills. Most cigarette filters are made up of cellulose acetate, which is a form of plastic. The white thread which you see in the cigarette is not cotton, but a plastic that remains in the environment as long as other forms of plastic do. Cigarette butts takes 18 months to 10 years, even more depending upon the climatic condition, to degrade and produce certain toxin substances that are harmful to the environment. In addition to this, the butts thrown in the bins might catch fire and result in more destruction. Let’s not talk about the massive forest fires that engulfed large parts of globe this very year.

The celebrity hullabaloo

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Let’s come back to the celebrities and all those who think that the stars smoking on screen are the real culprits. The government charges money from the celebrities for promoting the products and many people even file cases on them. They just think that celebs smoking in the movies promotes the products. But what I think is why people get hyper about the smoking scenes in the movies. The smoking “>scene is the part of the film. It depends upon the individual how they take it. The movies depict so many things and gives various knowledgeable information but people don’t follow it. People are conscious and they are intelligent enough to make their own decision to smoke or not.

The other side

Cigarette smoking, as we all know, is a threat to the environment and even to the humans. In spite of knowing the fact people still smoke. For years, many countries are banning cigarette smoking in office buildings, restaurants, bars and any other public places and introduction of new policies have taken place. But what’s the difference when there is no actual considerable implementation?

Recently, San Francisco has taken initiative to add 33 cents more to the price of a pack of cigarettes. The main motive behind this is to tell people that instead of spending so much money on cigarettes, one should save that money and utilize it in a better way. However, the butt is not stopping here. Clean Virginia Waterways believes “the best way to decrease the cigarette butt litter is to educate smokers, rather than try to make filters biodegradable.”

Green Butts

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People just know how to smoke and throw them in landfills but thinking beyond this will help save the environment. I know you will be surprised to know, the leftover butts can be recycled to make dresses, hats, ponchos and a vest. The butts are washed to make them suitable for wearing and then the filters are mixed with real wool and finally the clothes are made. It will just take 500 butts to make these items and it will be 95% safe to wear. It’s great. Isn’t it? So smokers start saving your butts and recycle them to make things out of it.

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Via: NY Times

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