re: Ppl who throw cigs out of the window when driving

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but I do throw my cigs wherever when I am hammered.

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Its paper and cotton and maybe a little bit of tobacco.

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The raw material for the manufacture of cigarette filters is cellulose (obtained from wood). The cellulose is acetylated (i.e. making it into a material called cellulose acetate or simply "acetate" for short), dissolved, and spun as continuous synthetic fibers arranged into a bundle called tow. The cellulose is a substituted diacetate (actually 2.35 - 2.55 substitution range) cellulose, due to its chemical and physical processing. This tow is opened, plasticized, shaped, and cut to length to act as a filter.[3][4]

In the early 1950s, Kent brand cigarettes used crocidolite asbestos as part of the (Micronite) filter. Asbestos fiber is heatproof, insoluble and forms extremely fine fibers — but has been proven to cause lung cancer when inhaled.[5] Other filter variations include Lark, Tareyton, Parliament, and Napoli cigarettes, which feature a chamber filled with activated charcoal granules.[6]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture price support for the various grades of tobacco favored the use of #4 and 5 grade, which included what were known as sand lugs and floor sweepings at 10 cents/lb versus #1 grade at close to 70 cents.[citation needed] During the 1940s, it was less expensive to manufacture a filtered cigarette than a regular one.

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Cigarette filters are the most common form of litter in the world, as approximately 5.6 trillon cigarettes are smoked every year worldwide.[15] Of those it is estimated that 4.5 trillion cigarette filters become litter every year.[16] In the 2006 International Coastal Cleanup, cigarettes and cigarette butts constituted 24.7 percent of the total collected pieces of garbage, over twice as many as any other category.[17] One study showed that for the LC50 of both Marine Topsmelt (Atherinops affinis) and freshwater Fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) smoked cigarette filters + tobacco are more toxic than smoked cigarette filters, but both are severely more toxic than unsmoked cigarette filters.[18]

The first step in the biodegradation of cellulose acetate is the deactylation of the acetate from the polymer. The second reaction Acetylesterase is a catalyzes.[19] The duration of the biodegradation process occurs over month to years,[3] the major factor being the availability of the appropriate enzymes. Another process of degradation is Photodegradation.[20][21]

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tiggerthetooth, where do live? I'm going to come dump a carton on your lawn and watch you melt.

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I heard it's just paper and cotton

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which implies that trash is a problem in Mexico, lots of Mexicans cross the border to come to America, maybe it's because of the trash

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