Each time you smoke a cigarette, chemicals are released into the atmosphere, polluting the air.
But pollution is not the only way cigarettes damage the environment.
Approximately 600 million trees of forest are destroyed each year to provide trees to dry tobacco.
Nearly 7% of bushfires, which are responsible for 14 deaths each year, are caused by carelessly discarded burning cigarette butts.
When it rains, cigarette butts lying in our streets and gutters are washed in to our harbours, beaches and rivers. The chemicals in these butts and the butts themselves impact on our water quality and can be deadly to our marine life (Clean up Australia).
Cigarette butts have been found in the stomachs of young birds, sea turtles and other marine creatures (Clean up Australia).