{"id":177037,"date":"2023-11-29T12:25:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T18:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/pollution-from-cigarette-butts-cost-world-us-186-billion-in-10-years"},"modified":"2023-11-29T12:25:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T18:25:14","slug":"pollution-from-cigarette-butts-cost-world-us-186-billion-in-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/pollution-from-cigarette-butts-cost-world-us-186-billion-in-10-years","title":{"rendered":"Pollution from cigarette butts cost world US $186 billion in 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pollution-from-cigarette-butts-cost-world-us-186-billion-in-10-years2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new study estimates $25.7 billion lost annually in waste management and damage to marine ecosystems.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Olga355\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>Cigarette filters were marketed under the guise of addressing health concerns by providing a false impression of safety. These filters, made of a material called cellulose acetate, don\u2019t actually reduce health risks and can even harm the lungs. The cellulose acetate fibers have been shown to deposit into the lungs of smokers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new study estimates $25.7 billion lost annually in waste management and damage to marine ecosystems. Olga355\/iStock. Cigarette filters were marketed under the guise of addressing health concerns by providing a false impression of safety. These filters, made of a material called cellulose acetate, don\u2019t actually reduce health risks and can even harm the lungs. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}