1,000,000 Cigarette Butts I Found Littered On The Ground


This is an aerial photo of me with a million cigarette butts that I found littered throughout the streets where I live.

I did this project to help raise awareness of the fact that cigarette butts are the most commonly littered item in the world.

I also did this to raise awareness of the fact that cigarette butts are far from being the only form of litter that is related to smoking, and as I picked up a million cigarette butts I also picked up any other litter that I stumbled across that is associated with smoking.

Below is a series of pictures which shows exactly how much other "smoking litter" I ended up finding during my search for a million cigarette butt...

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ALL THE OTHER SMOKING LITTER I FOUND

LIGHTERS & MATCHES AMOUNT
1. LIGHTERS 1,081
2. LIGHTER PACKAGING 17
3. MATCHES 39


CIGARETTE PACKS AMOUNT
1. NEWPORT 3,289
2. MARLBORO 1,091
3. MAVERICK 384
4. CAMEL 204
5. UNKNOWN 149
6. KOOL 133
7. PALL MALL 125
8. SENECA 107
9. WINSTON 61
10. EAGLE 55
11. L&M 49
12. SALEM 42
13. AMERICAN SPIRIT 35
14. VIRGINIA SLIMS 25
15. PARLIAMENT 21
16. TOURNEY 19
17. THIS 9
18. EDGEFIELD 8
19. PYRAMID 8
20. SONOMA 6
21. 305's 5
22. BENSON & HEDGES 5
23. MISTY 5
24. BASIC 4
25. 1st CLASS 3
26. CROWNS 3
27. DORAL 3
28. BERLEY 1
29. CAPRI 1
30. GOLD LEAF 1
31. KHUKURI 1
32. TIMELESS TIME 1
36. USA GOLD 1
33. WILD HEMP 1


OTHER CIGARETTE LITTER AMOUNT
1. CIGARETTE CARTONS 8
2. CIGARETTE CASES 1
3. CIGARETTE COUPONS 13
4. UNSMOKED CIGARETTES 51
5. CANDY CIGARETTES 1


CIGAR PACKS AMOUNT
1. BLACK & MILD 1,117
2. GAME LEAF 893
3. SWISHER SWEETS 772
4. BACKWOODS 755
5. SWEET WOODS LEAF 728
6. DUTCH 562
7. BLK 387
8. WHITE OWL 165
9. OPTIMO 118
10. SHOW 80
11. DUTCH MASTERS 63
12. SUPREME BLEND 39
13. AL CAPONE 1 1 24
14. AL CAPONE 2 2 1
15. GOOD TIMES 20
16. SWISHER SWEETS 18
17. 1882 16
18. SMOKER'S CHOICE 8
19. FRONTO LEAF MASTER 8
20. CHEYENNE 7
21. 4K's 6
22. WOLF BROS 5
23. BLACK RUBY 3
24. POM 3
25. GTO 2
26. BALI HAI 2
27. MIDDLETON'S 2
28. NIGHT OWL 2
29. PHILLIES 2
30. TALON 2
31. OG WOODS 2
32. BLACKSTONE 4
33. CRISS CROSS 1
34. DERRINGER 1
35. PRIME TIME 1
36. RRR TIME 1
37. SANTA FE 1
38. SENECA 1
39. ZIG ZAG 1


INDIVIDUALY WRAPPED CIGARS AMOUNT
1. BLACK & MILD 9,129
2. BLACK & MILD (UNOPENED) 23
3. UNKNOWN 2,980
4. SWISHER SWEETS 312
5. MIDDLETON'S 15
6. WHITE OWL 7
7. DUTCH MASTERS 4
8. BLK 2
9. GOOD TIMES 2
10. PHILLIES 2


OTHER CIGAR LITTER AMOUNT
1. CIGAR BUTTS 56
2. CIGAR BOXES 18
3. CIGAR HUMIDOR BAG 1
4. CIGAR TOBACCO BAGS 1


FILTER TIPS AMOUNT
1. PLASTIC (WHITE) 31,620
2. PLASTIC (BLACK) 3,991
3. PLASTIC (BROWN) 14
4. PLASTIC (PURPLE) 9
5. PLASTIC (RED) 7
6. PLASTIC (ORANGE) 5
7. PLASTIC (YELLOW) 1
8. WOODEN 688
9. PAPER 286
10. PAPER (UNUSED) 1
11. GLASS 1


MARIJUANA PARAPHERNALIA AMOUNT
1. ROLLING PAPERS 554
2. ROLLING PAPERS (UNUSED) 11
3. UNSMOKED JOINT 1
4. PRE-ROLLED BLUNT JARS 3
5. PRE-ROLLED BLUNT TUBES 1
6. MYLAR BAGS 61
7. STINK SACK 1
8. BLUNT AIR FRESHENERS 114


CRACK PARAPHERNALIA AMOUNT
1. CRACK PIPE 2
2. CHORE BOY 21
3. GLASS ROSE BOX 1


SMOKELESS TOBACCO AMOUNT
1. DIP CANS 314
2. SNUS POUCHES 340
3. PLASTIC CAN WRAPPERS 8
4. CARDBOARD CAN WRAPPERS 3
5. CHEWING TOBACCO POUCHES 4
6. INDIA EXPORT - GUTKHA (RMD) 369
7. INDIA EXPORT - GUTKHA (GOA) 1
8. INDIA EXPORT - TULSI ROYAL 8
9. INDIA EXPORT - MIRAGE 1
10. INDIA EXPORT - MIJAJ 1
11. INDIA EXPORT - COOL LIP 1


VAPE LITTER AMOUNT
1. ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES 393
2. ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES (PACKAGING) 570
3. VAPE PODS 1 298
4. VAPE PODS 2 13
5. VAPE POD COVERS 32
6. VAPE POD BOXES 32
7. CARTOMIZERS 127
8. CARTOMIZERS (PACKAGING) 1
9. OIL CARTRIDGES 125
10. OIL CARTRIDGES 27
11. VUSE CARTRIDGES 43
12. VUSE CARTRIDGES (BOXES) FACTORY 4
13. E-LIQUID BOTTLES 5
14. E-LIQUID BOXES 3
15. SILICONE VAPE COVERS 323


ANTI-SMOKING LITTER AMOUNT
1. "NO SMOKING" SIGNS 2
2. STOP SMOKING AIDS 1


TOTAL: 65,962 PIECES OF ADDITIONAL LITTER!

(I'm not telling anyone to quit smoking, I'm just asking people not to litter.)

Before I did this project I thought for sure that the second most common form of smoking litter after cigarette butts would be cigarette packs, but it turns out that the next most common form of smoking litter is actually the plastic filters that are on the ends of cigars. (So in other words, it could be said that "cigarette butts" are number one, and "cigar butts" are number 2.)

I guess this makes sense because a lot of cigars have these "disposable" tips, and if so many people don't mind throwing cigarette butts on the ground they probably aren't going to take the time to properly throw away what is left after smoking cigars either.

And the 3rd most common form of smoking litter is the plastic wrappers from "individually wrapped cigars", which also kind of makes sense because although cigars may not be as popular as cigarettes they tend to be sold individually or in packs of 2, unlike cigarettes which are typically sold in packs of 20, and therefore I actually ended up finding more cigar packaging on the ground than cigarette packaging.

But what is perhaps most notable about this is that the most common brand of plastic filter tips that I found on the ground was from the company "Black & Mild", and the most common brand of plastic wrappers from individually wrapped cigars that I found was also from "Black & Mild"!

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