Other health risks include mouth diseases like leukoplakia and cancers of the oral cavity, larynx, or pharynx, increased risk for early delivery and stillbirth when consumed during pregnancy, nicotine poisoning in children, and heart disease and stroke
Globally, 1,134,292 cigarette butts were cleaned up in beaches and waterways in 2021, making them the worlds second most common type of litter after food wrappers, exceeding plastic bags and straws
The sites can be formed when certain relatively unstable DNA adducts, such as 7-methyldeoxyguanosine, lose their purine base (in this case 7-methylguanine) due to spontaneous decomposition or hydrolysis
But the one thing that all of those stories have in common is that moment, right before you say those words