San Clemente and Laguna Niguel are evaluating similar measures
Many people, even smokers, are not aware that the cigarette filter is comprised of thousands of little particles of plastic, says Nicolas Mallos, director of Trash Free Seas Program at the Ocean Conservancy in Washington DC
Understandably so
The Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company was founded in 1982, by an author and an acupuncturist, with the idea, according to one of its founding members, to produce a natural tobacco product, an unadulterated tobacco product. Three years later, in 1985, the company introduced its first cigarettes, the Original American Spirit
For example, nicotine might appear as both a gas and a particle (solid/liquid) in a particular sample of tobacco smoke