To: Matt Hancock MP
Ban Normal Cigarettes - An Unnecessary Mess
We want to ban normal Cigarettes. The waste they generate each year is huge and although not 100% proven, E-cigarettes don't require a huge clean up operation.
Why is this important?
ALMOST 200 tonnes of cigarette butts are littered across the streets of our region every year, according to a new study.
The report found smoking materials make up 35 per cent of all street litter, with 11 tonnes discarded daily.
Tobacco is the world’s leading cause of preventable death, accounting for around 6 million deaths each year. That’s thanks to the cocktail of over 5,000 chemicals in cigarette smoke, of which at least 70 may cause cancer.
E-cigarettes, on the other hand, do not contain tobacco. Instead, they carry a nicotine-containing liquid which is heated into a vapour and breathed in. The nicotine satisfies the cravings associated with a smoking addiction, but doesn’t cause cancer.
So although E-cigarettes are not perfect, they don't carry this huge annual cost of cleaning up the waste, like normal cigarettes do.
This petition is calling on the health secretary to introduce an outright ban on normal cigarettes and stop the huge waste problem it causes every day.
