The waste from cartons and boxes used for distribution and packing brings the total annual solid post-consumption waste to at least 2 000 000 tonnes.
In a list provided by the American Lung Association on their website, here are some more examples of just a few chemicals that are added to cigarettes: acetone which is found in nail polish remover, arsenic which is used in rat poison, benzene which is found in rubber cement, butane which is used in lighter fluid, cadmium which is an active component in battery acid, lead which is used in batteries, methanol which is a main component in rocket fuel, nicotine which is used as an insecticide, tar which is a material for paving roads and toluene which is used to manufacture paint
Smoking and Pregnancy If you smoke whilst pregnant, your baby is 5x more likely to get bacterial meningitis as a child
However, the researchers note that fewer studies assessed this, and this association is worth investigating in more detail