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I used to be a smoker. I started at a very young age. For the longest time I would carelessly flick cigarette butts.

One day it dawned on me that I was littering.

Odd thing was I never littered outside of that. In fact cleaning up litter was part of my job at the time.

Unlike most litter, though, cigarette butts disintegrate almost immediately and completely in the rain.

"It has been estimated that cigarette filters will take between 500 and 1000 years to decompose"

Sounds like we've found my thing I've been getting wrong the whole time.

good for you. if you gonna smoke at least don't litter :)