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I found the article - it is part their Cigarette Butt Pollution Project (
https://www.cigwaste.org/)

https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/20/Suppl_1/i25

This is still just a summary - you have to pay to get the full article.

Nancy

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 8:02 AM Don MacNeill <donmacneill@bellaliant.net>
wrote:

> I think of New Scientist as being a reputable publication but it would
> certainly be good to have the details of the experiment if people might act
> on the results.
>
> Don
>
> Don MacNeill donmacneill@bellaliant.net
> On 6/17/2019 9:13 AM, N Robinson wrote:
>
> Here is the link to the article in *New Scientist* - no mention of any
> details of the "experiment".
>
>
> https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229750-200-time-to-kick-cigarette-butts-theyre-toxic-trash/
>
> Nancy
>
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 6:43 AM Don MacNeill <donmacneill@bellaliant.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Comes from tobacco plants.  Warfarin is also dangerous but beneficial in
>> small amounts.  It would be interesting to know if the study about fish
>> deaths had high or low concentrations of poisons from the filters in
>> whatever amount of water they used.
>>
>> Don
>>
>> Don MacNeill donmacneill@bellaliant.net
>> On 6/16/2019 10:17 PM, Mary Macaulay wrote:
>>
>> Cough
>> High grade poisonous fertilizer
>>
>> With kindest regards
>>
>> Mary (Macaulay), P.Eng.
>> CEO Insect Recovery Project
>> Social Enterprise - Tatamagouche Remember Adventures & Caper Cafe
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>> great bird friendly coffee, organic baking, breakfast & pasta, soups,
>> stews, vegan curries & chili, pollinator meadow, games & more!!
>> (Cafe/Buggies Open Wed to Sunday: 8:00 am - 3 pm; Tatamagouche B&B phone
>> me directly , Angevine Lake Chalet - book via Airbnb)
>> RememberAdventures.ca & InsectRecovery.org
>> 1-902-293-1533
>> Twitter @RememberTata & @InsectRecovery
>>
>> On Jun 16, 2019, at 9:01 PM, N Robinson <nrobbyn@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> A Nova Scotia student has done something useful with the 37.4 pounds of
>> cigarette butts he collected over three months on his campus, besides
>> showing off what a horrible mess it was.  He sent them off to an Ontario
>> company where they make fertilizer out of them:
>>
>> "Even though his class project has been completed, Johannesen said he
>> plans to keep picking up cigarette butts so he can send them to a recycling
>> company in Toronto where the paper, tobacco, and ash will be turned into
>> industrial-grade fertilizer, which is most often used on golf courses."
>> The full story can be found here:
>>
>>
>> https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/nova-scotia-student-s-cigarette-butts-pile-growing-every-day-1.4367145
>>
>> Your comments on that "high-grade fertilizer", please.
>>
>> Nancy
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 7:19 PM Mary Macaulay <marymacaulay@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Please note that birds and other wildlife also directly ingest these
>>> highly poisonous butts - another way in which this highly toxic trash
>>> contributes to environmental harm. Hope no one on the list is excusing
>>> themselves from littering in this way thinking they are helping out
>>> wildlife ..??
>>>
>>> With kindest regards
>>>
>>> Mary (Macaulay), P.Eng.
>>> CEO Insect Recovery Project
>>> Social Enterprise - Tatamagouche Remember Adventures & Caper Cafe
>>> Bed & Breakfast, Pedal Buggy, bike, kayak, coaster & snowshoe rentals,
>>> great bird friendly coffee, organic baking, breakfast & pasta, soups,
>>> stews, vegan curries & chili, pollinator meadow, games & more!!
>>> (Cafe/Buggies Open Wed to Sunday: 8:00 am - 3 pm; Tatamagouche B&B phone
>>> me directly , Angevine Lake Chalet - book via Airbnb)
>>> RememberAdventures.ca & InsectRecovery.org
>>> 1-902-293-1533
>>> Twitter @RememberTata & @InsectRecovery
>>>
>>> On Jun 16, 2019, at 6:27 PM, Parker Donham <parker@donham.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> I asked Prof. Google about this, and she directed me to the following.
>>>
>>>    - From Scientific American:*  Cigarette Butts in Nests Deter Bird
>>>    Parasites
>>>    <https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/culturing-science/cigarette-butts-in-nests-deter-bird-parasites/>*
>>>    - From the Economist: *Some birds use discarded cigarettes to
>>>    fumigate their nests*
>>>    <https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2017/09/30/some-birds-use-discarded-cigarettes-to-fumigate-their-nests>
>>>    - From Nature: *City birds use cigarette butts to smoke out
>>>    parasites
>>>    <https://www.nature.com/news/city-birds-use-cigarette-butts-to-smoke-out-parasites-1.11952>*
>>>    - From the New Scientist:  *From the New Scientist Birds use
>>>    cigarette butts for chemical warfare against ticks
>>>    <https://www.newscientist.com/article/2138655-birds-use-cigarette-butts-for-chemical-warfare-against-ticks/>*
>>>
>>> These reports in the popular press all seem based on a single study by
>>> by three Mexico City researchers published in Biology Letters. The Royal
>>> Society has an abstract (but the full paper is behind the usual
>>> unconscionable academic paywall):
>>>
>>>    - *Incorporation of cigarette butts into nests reduces nest
>>>    ectoparasite load in urban birds: new ingredients for an old recipe?*
>>>    <https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0931>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 12:17 PM Ken J MacAulay <kenmacaulay@eastlink.ca>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> John there was a recent article on-line about wild bees using plastic
>>>> to
>>>> line their  nests.  That article also mentioned birds using cigarette
>>>> butts
>>>> in their nests to kill mites etc.  Like you, though, I can't remember
>>>> if it
>>>> was on a news feed or a FaceBook article.  Here is a link to an article
>>>> that
>>>> mentio