Departamento de Oceanografia e Limnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Via Costeira S/N, Praia de Mãe Luíza, Natal 59014-100, Brazil.
Departamento de Oceanografia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Arquitetura, s/n, Recife 50740-550, Brazil.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 Jul 28;16(15):2690. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16152690.
Smoking is a social phenomenon of global scope. The impacts start from the cultivation of the plant to the disposal of cigarette butts in the most diverse places. These aspects go beyond economic and public health issues, also affecting natural environments and their biota in a serious and indistinct way. Of the six trillion cigarettes consumed globally each year, four and a half trillion are disposed somewhere in the environment. Cigarette butts are predominantly plastic, non-biodegradable waste, prevalent in coastal environments in various parts of the world, and with high potential for generating impacts on a wide range of socioeconomic and environmental aspects. Among the 5000 compounds found in a cigarette, those with higher toxic potential are mainly concentrated in the filter and in tobacco remnants, which are items found in discarded cigarette butts. After surveying published studies on this topic, the present study addressed the interaction between the impacts related to tobacco smoking, highlighting the problem as an important and emerging issue that demands joint efforts, and actions especially focused on the reduction of environmental impacts, an aspect that has not yet been assessed.
吸烟是一种具有全球范围的社会现象。其影响从植物的种植到在最不同的地方处理烟头。这些方面不仅涉及经济和公共卫生问题，还以严重和模糊的方式影响自然环境及其生物群。在全球每年消费的 6 万亿支香烟中，有四分之三半被丢弃在环境中。烟头主要是塑料，不可生物降解的废物，在世界各个地区的沿海环境中很普遍，并且具有对广泛的社会经济和环境方面产生影响的高潜力。在一支香烟中发现的 5000 种化合物中，那些毒性更高的化合物主要集中在过滤嘴和烟草残余物中，这些都是丢弃的烟头中的物品。在对这个主题的已发表研究进行调查后，本研究探讨了与吸烟相关的影响之间的相互作用，强调了这个问题作为一个重要的和新兴的问题，需要共同努力，特别是采取行动减少环境影响，这方面尚未得到评估。
