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Smoking, the scourge that just keeps on scourging:

New study makes grim revelation about cigarette filters: ‘They have to be taken off the market entirely’

“The filter is full of thousands of toxic chemicals and microplastic fibers, so it’s not just any piece of plastic that’s being discarded into the environment. It’s hazardous waste,” said Bethanie Carney Almroth, professor of ecotoxicology at the University of Gothenburg, in a press release.

https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/cigarette-filters-toxic-aquatic-larvae