In the ocean, even the largest and most resilient bits of plastic are broken up and degraded by the waves and sunlight until eventually, these chunks measure less than five millimetres across about the size of an ant and they are classed as secondary microplastics. This type of plastic, that started out as drinks bottles, fishing gear, disposable cutlery and so on, is much more abundant than primary microplastics that started out small, such as the microbeads found in toothpaste
In a letter, health secretary Preeti Sudan wrote: Novel products such as Juul are harmful and addictive and could potentially undermine our tobacco control efforts. In February, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) had issued an order to ban sales, manufacture, distribution, trade, import and advertisement of e-cigarettes and vapes
Kennedy Airport (JFK) to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX), providing three rows inside the aircraft where smoking was not permitted
We need to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time, said McGruder, the tobacco control campaigner
