"This just goes again to the fundamental effort by the tobacco industry to use every opportunity they have to contest and delay the merits of the case from being heard and for eventually a ruling to take place," said Flory Doucas, a spokeswoman for the Quebec Coalition for Tobacco Control
Cigarette butts leak toxic chemicals, such as lead, arsenic, and cadmium into the marine environment
It offers a feeling of security and order that helps people feel less stressed
Nicotine at a low dose results in overstimulation of the nerves and at a high dose can cause the nervous system to be overwhelmed
While strong age verification tools help in reducing underage access, it has been demonstrated that young people are often able to circumvent even strong safeguards
In order to widen the knowledge on available literature and provide more comprehensive overview and support the broader objectives of the present review, some articles that did not meet the formal inclusion criteria - due to lack of open-access free full text (as per the PubMed text availability search filter) and/or not in English, and/or present in different databases - were nonetheless analyzed in a specific paragraph (see section Further relevant evidence on passive smoke and pets)
