Health in Taiwan Area

  • City becoming an ashtray for 4 billion cigarettes

    TAIWAN AREA, 2013/06/11 Smokers in Taipei light up about 4 billion cigarettes a year, the Taipei City Government said yesterday, which means if discarded cigarette butts were stacked one on top of the other the height would rise 40,000 times taller than the 509-meter-tall Taipei 101. Presently, just imagine if that cigarette-butt tower toppled over and was strewn throughout city streets: that's the problem the Taipei City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is facing. In light of the immense number of cigarettes being smoked in the city, the DEP is urging people to protect the environment by not dumping cigarettes on the streets or other public areas.