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ArticleTobacco control2017

Tobacco industry responsibility for butts: a Model Tobacco Waste Act.

Clifton Curtis, Thomas E Novotny, Kelley Lee, Mike Freiberg, Ian McLaughlin

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Article in Tobacco control, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. A downstream social norms approach for curtailing e-cigarette waste: Promising social marketing interventions from consumer interactions.Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA · 2023
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  8. The value of studying supply chains for tobacco control.Tobacco prevention & cessation · 2021
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  10. 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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  15. From Plant to Waste: The Long and Diverse Impact Chain Caused by Tobacco Smoking.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019
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  16. Global Health Perspectives on Cigarette Butts and the Environment.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019
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  17. 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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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Clifton CurtisCigarette Butt Pollution Project, Washington, USA.
Thomas E NovotnyGraduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, , San Diego, California, USA.
Kelley LeeFaculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
Mike FreibergPublic Health Law Center, William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
Ian McLaughlinChangeLab Solutions, Oakland, California, USA.

Funding

Tobacco Companies, Public Policy and Global HealthR01CA091021 · NCI · U OF L LONDON SCH/HYGIENE &TROPICAL MED · PI LEE, KELLEY · 2001 to 2018
$5.1M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA091021
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cigarette butts and other postconsumer products from tobacco use are the most common waste elements picked up worldwide each year during environmental cleanups. Under the environmental principle of Extended Producer Responsibility, tobacco product manufacturers may be held responsible for collection, transport, processing and safe disposal of tobacco product waste (TPW). Legislation has been applied to other toxic and hazardous postconsumer waste products such as paints, pesticide containers and unused pharmaceuticals, to reduce, prevent and mitigate their environmental impacts. Additional product stewardship (PS) requirements may be necessary for other stakeholders and beneficiaries of tobacco product sales and use, especially suppliers, retailers and consumers, in order to ensure effective TPW reduction. This report describes how a Model Tobacco Waste Act may be adopted by national and subnational jurisdictions to address the environmental impacts of TPW. Such a law will also reduce tobacco use and its health consequences by raising attention to the environmental hazards of TPW, increasing the price of tobacco products, and reducing the number of tobacco product retailers.

Indexed as

CommerceEnvironmentEnvironmental PollutionGovernment RegulationHazardous WasteHumansSocial ResponsibilityTobacco IndustryTobacco ProductsWaste ManagementHazardous WasteDenormalizationEnvironmentPublic policyTobacco industry

Identifiers

PMID26931480
PMCPMC5256370

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