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[5] Shu Wang, David Merriman, and Frank Chaloupka, Relative Tax Rates, Proximity, and Cigarette Tax Noncompliance: Evidence from a National Sample of Littered Cigarette Packs, Public Finance Review 47:2 (March 2019): 276-311

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Because cigarette butts are primarily made of plastic filters that dont biodegrade, the butts that arent eaten by wildlife simply pile up on shorelines or at the bottom of bodies of water