All the women in iraq who are using the internet to build up their profiles and will be tracking a story of course charge at rates social media the fact. Essential of today its more the talk of the hour and of course around the clock on a website thats t w dot com a day. Cut cut. Cut cut. Cut cut cut cut cut its all happening dont show it coming. Your linked in news from africa and the world your link to exceptional stories and discussions can you one welcome to the debut African Program tonight from funny to me from the z tower i would say down to the close next africa and join us on facebook and d. W. Africa. On. Cigarettes cause sickness and death they dont just calm people they also laid waste to the environment many of the toxic dangers lurk in Cigarette Butts. Its all going off to make given the amount of nicotine they contain cigarettes are Hazardous Waste and many people dont see the problem or even regard the butts as trench. Growing tobacco is a resource intensive and require
a special machine the research a wants to find out how much nicotine the bots release into the environment. she s. particularly interested in what happens to the toxin when it comes into contact with water when it rains for example. the toxins from the stubs that amy greene has collected have already been washed out so she s producing her own butts three point seven centimeters long the average length of a discarded cigarette. according to e.u. regulations tobacco waste products containing more than half a mill a gram of nicotine should be categorized as dangerous. but scientists then exposes the bots that she s created to artificial rain showers the water runs over them leeching out the nicotine inside she analyzes this water the findings on average
a cigarette but releases two milligrams of nicotine into the environment in some cases as much as six that s four to twelve times over the danger limit. must think if we have discovered that the nicotine dissolves in a very quickly it s water soluble some sixty percent of the nicotine leeches out just after two rain showers. it takes just half an hour for the majority of the nicotine to leach out and pollute the water. the consequences of this process of being studied in san diego and smoking bans in california a much stricter than in germany and they also apply on the beach you can expect to find for smoking here. thomas novotny is a public health expert and c.e.o. of the cigarette butt pollution project he s made it his mission to curb the damage