How leachates from wasted cigarette butts influence aquatic life? A case study on freshwater mussel Anodontites trapesiali

• Published in: The Science of the total environment Vol. 689; pp. 381 - 389
• Main Authors: Montalvão, Mateus Flores, Chagas, Thales Quintão, da Silva Alvarez, Tenilce Gabriela, Mesak, Carlos, da Costa Araújo, Amanda Pereira, Gomes, Alex Rodrigues, de Andrade Vieira, Julya Emmanuela, Malafaia, Guilherme
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands 01.11.2019
• Subjects: adults; Animals; Anodontites; bioaccumulation; Bivalvia - drug effects; case studies; chemical composition; chromium; cigarettes; cytoplasm; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Environmental Monitoring; freshwater mussels; granulocytes; Hemocytes - drug effects; hemolymph; human health; immunotoxicity; leachates; lead; manganese; morphometry; mutagenicity; mutagens; nickel; phagocytes; pollutants; sodium; Tobacco Products; Water Pollutants, Chemical - toxicity; zinc; Hemolymph; Aquatic pollution; Mollusks; Mutagenicity; Cigarette buds

There are several reports on the damage smoking causes to human health available in the literature, but little is known about the environmental and biological consequences from inappropriate cigarette butt (CB) disposal in urban and natural environments. The immunotoxic, morphotoxic and mutagenic po...