{"id":44549,"date":"2019-10-19T14:20:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T12:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psymedia.co.za\/?p=44549"},"modified":"2024-01-13T06:23:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T04:23:44","slug":"woodland-craft-cigarettes-the-solution-to-leftover-festival-butts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psymedia.co.za\/woodland-craft-cigarettes-the-solution-to-leftover-festival-butts\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodland Craft Cigarettes – the solution to leftover festival butts?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019ve been to a festival in Cape Town or visited a tobacconist recently, you might have come across a distinct brown and green cigarette box \u2013 Woodland Craft Cigarettes by Smokey Treats<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What makes them different, exactly? While they recognize smoking cigarettes is a horrible habit, there are ways to decrease your impact on the environment with eco-friendly changes to the cigarette and packaging.<\/p>\n

How many times have you squashed a cigarette under your shoe at a beautiful festival ground, in the street or at your local bar?<\/p>\n

While it seems\u00a0just one butt<\/em>\u00a0isn\u2019t really a problem, cigarette filters are made from plastic (acetate) which like other plastic products, take forever to properly breakdown.<\/p>\n

They end up going down the drain, or staying on\u00a0festival\u00a0grounds, which ultimately\u00a0impact\u00a0our beautiful land and oceans!<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a fun fact too: almost 7 trillion cigarettes are smoked worldwide every year. Do you think even half of those land up in an ashtray as they should? Certainly not!<\/p>\n

Not only that, there\u2019s a ton of artificial additives in a typical cigarette. These chemical additives increase their toxicity. Smoking itself is inherently bad enough for you. Plus, regular papers are bleached with chlorine, too!<\/p>\n

How does Smokey Treats aim to solve this problem?<\/h2>\n

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Woodland Craft Cigarettes do things a bit differently. The filter is made up of biodegradable wood-pulp, which over time will completely disintegrate.<\/p>\n

There are no additives in\u00a0the locally\u00a0(African) sourced tobacco. There\u2019s no bleach in the paper, no plastic in the packaging (it\u2019s actually recycled cardboard) and no synthetic inks.<\/p>\n

The ultimate question to any cigarette smoker \u2013 does it take like a\u00a0normal<\/em>\u00a0cigarette, especially the brand that I personally smoke?<\/p>\n

Probably not. While all cigarettes at their core essentially are a huff of smoke in your lungs, every smoker has an acquired brand they find most desirable.<\/p>\n

Are there other alternatives?<\/h2>\n

While Woodland Craft Cigarette is the only full eco-friendly cigarette, a number of organic roll-your-own tobaccos and accessories (like filter tips and papers) have become available on the market. A few people have also shifted towards vapes and CBD vapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019ve been to a festival in Cape Town or visited a tobacconist recently, you might have come across a distinct brown and green cigarette box \u2013 Woodland Craft Cigarettes by Smokey Treats. What makes them different, exactly? While they recognize smoking cigarettes is a horrible habit, there are ways to decrease your impact on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":44550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5441],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psymedia.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psymedia.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psymedia.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psymedia.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psymedia.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/psymedia.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136378,"href":"https:\/\/psymedia.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44549\/revisions\/136378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psymedia.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psymedia.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psymedia.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psymedia.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}