Although smoking rates have declined, cigarettes are the most littered item in the world today with over 4.5 trillion cigarettes littered worldwide each year making up almost 40% of litter (CigaretteLitter.org, 2015). Dropping cigarette butts and cigar tips to the ground, putting them in garden beds, and disposing of them in waterways is littering. The belief amongst some smokers that cigarettes are biodegradable is incorrect, most filters in cigarettes (CigaretteLitter.org, 2015) contain toxic chemicals that can leak into soil, are poisonous to wildlife, and pollute our water sources (Greenhalgh, 2011). “One cigarette butt soaked in a liter of water under controlled laboratory conditions was lethal to half the fish exposed and toxic to both
