Cigarette prices set to increase … again

By Kirsty Brown
The Public Press

The San Francisco Board of supervisors has unanimously voted to increase the price of cigarettes by 20 cents per pack. This rise will make an additional $6 million a year, which is to be used to help clean up discarded cigarette butts.
 
Cigarette butts currently make up around 25 percent of all litter and their decomposition is harmful to the environment releasing toxic substances into the ground.
 
According to researchers at San Diego State University, fish swimming in one liter of water can be killed by a single cigarette butt being left in it.

 
 

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