Cigarettes butt littering: The story of the world's most littered item from the perspective of pollution, remedial actions, and policy measures

KR Vanapalli, HB Sharma, S Anand, VP Ranjan… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cigarettes butt (CB) is one of the most littered items on the planet. This paper critically
analyzes the factors responsible for CB littering, and associated environmental ramifications …

[HTML][HTML] Toward a sustainable circular economy for cigarette butts, the most common waste worldwide on the coast

M Conradi, JE Sánchez-Moyano - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The circular economy is based on the maximum use of resources by reducing, reusing, and
recycling the elements used. Currently, the items littered most frequently in the world are …

[HTML][HTML] E-cigarette attitudes and use in a sample of Australians aged 15–30 years

S Pettigrew, M Miller, JA Santos, TS Raj… - Australian and New …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective The aim of this study was to explore e-cigarette exposure and patterns of vaping in
a sample of Australians aged 15–30 years to provide insight into potential means of …

Indoor air pollution and human ocular diseases: associated contaminants and underlying pathological mechanisms

DL Yang, ZN Zhang, H Liu, ZY Yang, MM Liu… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
People spend a long time indoors, especially young children. The risk of indoor pollution on
human health is one of the current hotspots in environmental and public health. The human …

Vaping, environmental toxicants exposure, and lung cancer risk

SA Shehata, EA Toraih, EA Ismail, AM Hagras… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Lung cancer (LC) is considered one of the most common cancers globally.
Numerous studies have determined the relations between E-cigarette, or vaping, products …

A comprehensive review on triple R eco-management strategies to reduce, reuse and recycle of hazardous cigarette butts

G Shah, U Bhatt, V Soni - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Cigarettes are the globally consumed product that contributes to public health problems and
is the source of the most prevalent form of litter in the world, Cigarette butts. Cigarette butts …

Short-term exposure to environmental levels of nicotine and cotinine impairs visual motor response in zebrafish larvae through a similar mode of action: Exploring the …

M Bellot, L Manen-Freixa, E Prats… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
The current view is that environmental levels of nicotine and cotinine, commonly in the ng/L
range, are safe for aquatic organisms. In this study, 7 days post-fertilization zebrafish …

[HTML][HTML] Disposable e-cigarettes and cigarette butts alter the physiology of an aquatic plant Lemna minor (Lemnaceae)

DS Green, B Boots, B Olah-Kovacs… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cigarette butts are one of the most littered single-use plastic items worldwide and can have
ecotoxicological effects. e-Cigarettes (or 'vapes') have gained popularity globally as an …

Chemical elements, flavor chemicals, and nicotine in unused and used electronic cigarettes aged 5–10 years and effects of ph

M Williams, W Luo, K McWhirter, O Ikegbu… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The concentrations of elements/metals, nicotine, flavor chemicals and acids were compared
in the e-liquids of unused and used first-generation electronic cigarettes (ECs) that were …

The role of α7-nAChR-mediated PI3K/AKT pathway in lung cancer induced by nicotine

Z He, Y Xu, Z Rao, Z Zhang, J Zhou, T Zhou… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nicotine enters the environment mainly through human activity, as well as natural sources.
This review article examines the increasing evidence implicating nicotine in the initiation …