Studies of the environmental impacts of tobacco products, both outdoors and indoors, are combined into one research center at SDSU.
Solid tobacco waste, like these tobacco butts found on the streets of San Diego, is among the subjects examined by the Center for Tobacco and the Environment. Undated photo.
“Where does it collect? Who’s impacted by it? And how does it end up in the storm drains flowing out to the oceans?” said Georg Matt, the director of the new Center for Tobacco and the Environment. Lydia Greiner, like Matt, is a psychology professor at SDSU. She said people who have bought pre-owned homes have described it to her.
“We tried to get rid of the smell, and in doing that we realized it’s not just a smell. The smell actually represents toxic chemicals that were left in my house.”
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