Resources

Fact Sheets

Save Our Shores: A Story Of Cigarette Butts
This article in the Journal of Tobacco Control (2023) explains how cigarette filters are simply a marketing tool that do not reduce the health risks of smoking.
Cellulose acetate cigarette filter is hazardous to human health
This 2022 white paper summarizes the effects of tobacco product waste on the environment and includes recommendations for upstream solutions to the problem.
Tobacco Product Waste in California: A White Paper 2022
This 2022 report from the World Health Organization examines the global environmental health risks of tobacco cultivation, production, distribution, consumption, and waste.
Tobacco: Poisoning Our Planet

Trying to Quit? We Can Help!
https://santacruzhealth.org/PublicHealth/HealthyCommunities/TobaccoEducationandPrevention.aspx
Find out how Big Tobacco’s cigarette butts threaten our health and our planet with microplastics.
https://www.undo.org/little-big-lie
Learn about the efforts of one of our community partners to spread the word through ocean advocacy.
https://www.thecigarettesurfboard.com/
Join the Santa Cruz County Tobacco Education Coalition to learn more!
www.santacruzhealth.org/tobacco
Economic Model for Estimating Local TPW Costs
Tobacco product waste isn’t just bad for the environment, it’s bad for the economy too! Researchers at the Center for Tobacco and the Environment at San Diego State University created a model that communities can use with local data to estimate how much TPW costs their area. View the study, factsheets, and other materials at Economic Costs of Tobacco Product Waste | Center for Tobacco and the Environment (sdsu.edu).

Learn why cigarette butts are a health equity and environmental justice issue.
www.withinaninch.org
Sup. Cummings speaks with Rachel Kippen, Tobacco Education Coalition, about Tobacco Waste in the Ocean
https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:e437fd07-1934-4d36-a3b2-4a554a5f2dab