Why you shouldn't drop the fag ends on the ground Smoking ban laws have been approved in almost all countries all over the world and cigarette's manifacturers have been forced to display health warnings on cigarette's packs, despite negative effects upon health of adults and children, also as passive smokers, were been repetitively proved it's been a hard way to accept by governments to ban smoking by law. Everybody thought that a great victory was been achieved by non-smokers in terms of public health but a new threat came out as smokers weren't allowed to enter into buildings while they were smoking. In fact, the smoking ban laws don't mention at all what to do whith the butts of cigarettes, because before smoking ban laws, smokers drop the fag ends into the trays, but the obbligation to put trays outside the building isn't regulated. According to Newscientist, every year 4 trillons, 750.000 tonnes in total, of cigarettes filter are chunk in the enviroment. Used cigarettes butts not only aren't biodegradable but also containt toxic and carginogens elements. As the rain flush away fag ends to the drainage systems, the fag ends release all these toxics into the water. It's found that one cigarette butt soaked in a litre for 96 hours of water could release enough toxines to kill half of the fish exposed to them. Fag ends are completely useless, as they even don't protect smokers from the toxines, in fact, cancer risks have increased over the last 50 years, in contrary, the harm to the enviroment is great. I hope you think twice before dropping fag ends to the ground. Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking_ban https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229750-200-time-to-kick-cigarette-butts-theyre-toxic-trash/