3191.0 Banning butts: The environmental case for eliminating tobacco waste

Monday, November 9, 2009: 12:30 PM
Oral
Organizer:
Thomas Novotny, MD, MPH
Moderator:
Cynthia Hallett, MPH
Panelists:
Elizabeth Smith, PhD , K. Michael Cummings, PhD MPH , Richard Barnes, JD , Bronson Frick and RIchard Gersberg, PhD

12:30 PM
Toxic Environmental Waste Caused by Cigarette Butts and Filters
Thomas Novotny, MD, MPH and John Schneider, Research on tobacco economics
  
12:48 PM
Tobacco industry and smoker attitudes toward cigarette butt litter
Elizabeth Smith, PhD
1:06 PM
Toxicity of cigarette butts, and their chemical components, to marine and freshwater fish
Elli Slaughter, Richard Gersberg, PhD, Kayo Watanabe, MPH, John Rudolph, Chris Stransky and Thomas Novotny, MD, MPH
1:24 PM
Regulating the Disposal of Cigarette Butts as Toxic Hazardous Waste: Replicate Other Hazardous Waste Disposal Protocols or Create a New One?
Richard Barnes, JD
  
1:42 PM
Establishing an Advocacy Project to Reduce and Eliminate Cigarette Butt Waste
Clifton Edward Curtis, Juris Doctor
  

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Organized by: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs
Endorsed by: Environment

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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