dangers of electronic cigarettes Infographic: E-cigarettes & Toxicity FDA Tobacco Education & Prevention

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Eating them could cause the animal to choke or starve to death because the plastic isnt digested, filling up their stomachs. Moreover, the NOAA said, cigarette butts contain toxins (such as heavy metals and the organic compounds nicotine and ethylphenol). And while not a lot is known about how those toxins impact the environment, wildlife and humans, studies show they have a negative health impact on fish. Over the past 25 years, volunteers taking part in the International Coastal Cleanup, an annual event held by the Ocean Conservancy, have collected 52.9 million cigarette butts

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Participants who used e-cigarettes also completed a separate questionnaire assessing their degree of nicotine dependence