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2/14/2024

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Air Quality / COVID-19 / Social Anxiety
/ Heart Health / Medicaid and Medicare
Health Blog Topics 
  • Cigarette Butts Everywhere - Theresa E (2/13/2024)
  • Medical Warning Signs - (11-7-2022)
  • Doctors' Office - How to be your own best advocate (11/1/2022)
  • Hearth Health (update 11/1/2021)
  • Air Quality (6/21/2022)
  • Caption Call Voice to Text (5/18/2022)
  • Heat Safety (5/7/2022)
  • Water Intake and Dehydration  (3/9/21; 5/7/22; 7/24/22)
  • Social Anxiety (6/4/2021)
  • Regular Exercise (3/10/2021)
  • Women's Heart Health 101  (2/17/2021)
  • Insider Tips To Improve ER Visits   (1/15/2019)
  • Learn Hands Only CPR- FREE  March 2019  (1/9/2019)
  • Mental Health First Aid Dec-8-2018  (12/4/2018)
  • Mental Health First Aid Jan-19-2019  (11/28/2018)
  • Healthy Aging with Lis Swihart  (9/10/2018)
  • Living with Memory Loss Video  (6/22/2018)
  • Living Well Workshop 2018  (4/19/2018)
  • Bullying Among Older Adults  (3/14/2018)
  • Vaccinations  (12/8/2017)
  • Hepatitis A  (12/7/2017)
  • Emergency Aid For Mental-Behavioral Health (10/16/2017)
  • ​Signs of Stroke (10/29/2017)

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    Risk factors for AFib can include:
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Cigarette Butts

2/13/2024

 
​Toxic Cigarette Butts Everywhere
by Theresa E.
PicturePhoto by Theresa E.
"As I walk my dog around the complex, I see cigarette butts in front of the buildings, in the plant beds, and in other places where they shouldn't be.  I have filled up sandwich bags with cigarette butts that accumulated on our grounds."

"Cigarette butts are the most abundant form of plastic waste polluting our environment. They are made of cellulose acetate, a man-made plastic containing toxic chemicals, arsenic, lead and nicotine. It takes up to 10 years to completely degrade. The chemicals released remain in the environment for many more years beyond the life of a cigarette butt itself."

"Cigarette butts improperly disposed of on the ground will leach the toxins which presents a serious threat to us and our environment. They cause significant harm to our water sources, to marine life and to land animals who eat the tiny butts. Cigarette butts need to be properly disposed of in an appropriate waste bin, not on the ground."

References
​
Cigarette Butts: Toxic Threat and Tobacco Control Opportunity
January 04, 2024 /  GlobalHealthNow.org

Cigarette Butts: Toxic Plastic Pollution from Cradle to Grave
August 3, 2023 / OceanCare.org

Cigarette butts leak deadly toxins into the environment.
May 3, 2023 / University of Gothenburg

Cigarette butts are toxic waste.
Apr 6, 2022 /  Undo.org

Tiny but deadly: Cigarette butts are the most commonly polluted plastic.
August 28, 2020 / Earthday.org

5 ways cigarette litter impacts the environment.
Apr. 21, 2017 / TruthInitiative.org

Tobacco and cigarette butt consumption in humans and animals
May 2011 / NIH

Toxicity of cigarette butts, and their chemical components, to marine and freshwater fish
May 2011 / NIH


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