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Louis Post-Dispatch

All cigarettes including those marketed as "natural," "organic" or "additive-free" have harmful substances such as heavy metals, tar and carbon monoxide

[19] [20] [21] Its commercialization was directly associated with the Atlantic slave trade of enslaved Africans, being widely used as a commodity in trade relations between captaincies such as Bahia and Pernambuco and Costa da Mina in West Africa, where tobacco, in addition to gold and other enslaved people, constituted one of the central elements of these exchanges

The event highlighted an often-overlooked form of pollution: cigarette butts