Butt really? The environmental impact of cigarettes.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Disposal practices of cigarettes and electronic nicotine products among adults, findings from Wave 6 (2021) of the PATH Study.PloS one · 2025
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2. Estimating the accumulation and re-accumulation of commercial tobacco, electronic cigarette, and cannabis waste based on a stratified random sample of census blocks.PloS one · 2025
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3. Switching to cigarette brand variants with different filter ventilation levels: a descriptive analysis.Tobacco control · 2024
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4. Place-based estimates of cigarette butt litter raise environmental justice concerns in the United States.PloS one · 2024
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5. A comprehensive review on triple R eco-management strategies to reduce, reuse and recycle of hazardous cigarette butts.Heliyon · 2023
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6. A zero-cost attention-based approach to promote cleaner streets: A Signal Detection Theory approach in Parisian streets.PloS one · 2023
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7. No Butts on the Beach: Aquatic Toxicity of Cigarette Butt Leachate Chemicals.Tobacco regulatory science · 2021
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8. Effects of Unfiltered Cigarettes on Smoking Behavior and Toxicant Exposure: Protocol for a Randomized Crossover Clinical Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2020
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9. Online Simulation Model to Estimate the Total Costs of Tobacco Product Waste in Large U.S. Cities.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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10. Cigarette waste: Assessment of hazard to the environment and health in Riyadh city.Saudi journal of biological sciences · 2020
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11. Influence of temperature, relative humidity, and water saturation on airborne emissions from cigarette butts.The Science of the total environment · 2020
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12. Estimating and mapping cigarette butt littering in urban environments: A GIS approach.Environmental research · 2020
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13. The environmental externalities of tobacco manufacturing: A review of tobacco industry reporting.Ambio · 2020
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14. Global Health Perspectives on Cigarette Butts and the Environment.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019
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15. Cigarette Waste in Popular Beaches in Thailand: High Densities that Demand Environmental Action.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018
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16. The exposure to water with cigarette residue changes the anti-predator response in female Swiss albino mice.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2018
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17. Environmental impacts of tobacco product waste: International and Australian policy responses.Ambio · 2017
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18. Extended Producer Responsibility and Product Stewardship for Tobacco Product Waste.International journal of waste resources · 2014
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Corrections and comments

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  The intractable cigarette 'filter problem'.2011
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  Tobacco and cigarette butt consumption in humans and animals.2011
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  Whose butt is it? tobacco industry research about smokers and cigarette butt waste.2011
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  Smoke-free college campuses: no ifs, ands or toxic butts.2011
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  Toxicity of cigarette butts, and their chemical components, to marine and freshwater fish.2011
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  Analysis of metals leached from smoked cigarette litter.2011
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  Tobacco litter costs and public policy: a framework and methodology for considering the use of fees to offset abatement costs.2011
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  Geographic patterns of cigarette butt waste in the urban environment.2011
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  Regulating the disposal of cigarette butts as toxic hazardous waste.2011

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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