Jeremy Clarkson has opened up on his lifelong smoking habit and how his GP warned him to quit immediately over fears of an agonising premature death. The former Top Gear presenter, 61, has previously spoken out about his health worries after turning 60, saying he thinks about dying every day. Now, the broadcaster has opened up on a stark warning he received from his doctor over smoking throughout his adult years
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Dannielle Green, a marine ecologist at Anglia Ruskin University in the U.K., reviewed the evidence of cigarette butt pollution in terrestrial and aquatic environments, and she underlines the potentially lethal and sublethal impacts these can have on species: Theres evidence for reproductive rate effects, changes in growth, malformations and developmental impacts. Research has shown nicotine and other chemicals in cigarette butts are toxic to microbes, plants, benthic organisms, bivalves, zooplankton, fish, and mammals, but warn that critical knowledge gaps remain
