“Scientists have discovered new evidence to make smokers feel even guiltier about their foul habit.

Not only are the tobacco and chemicals in cigarettes carcinogenic. It turns out that their filters are so toxic that discarded butts have become a major threat to the planet’s health, according to San Diego State University Public Health Professor Thomas Novotny and researcher Elli Slaughter.

“Cigarette butts and other tobacco product waste are the items that are most commonly picked up during urban and beach clean-ups worldwide,” the two scientists wrote in an article published on Tuesday in Current Environmental Health Reports, a scientific journal.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

*Read more here from John Dyer / Vice News:
https://news.vice.com/article/millions-of-discarded-cigarette-butts-are-poisoning-the-planet