Not exact matches
When the
cigarette is smoked, the nicotine concentrates down in the oral
end meaning that a small nub of a
cigarette butt will retain 25 % of the nicotine contained in the original
cigarette.
Lot 7, «Dead
Ends Died Out, Examined,» is 18 - layer wooden and glass vitrine of used
cigarette butts put together in 1993 by Damien Hirst (b. 1965).
Cigarettes and smoking have featured repeatedly in Hirst's works, as a series of stubs individually isolated and displayed on seventeen rows of narrow shelves in a glass - fronted cabinet in Dead
Ends, Died Out, Examined 1993 (private collection), or heaped in a stinking mass of
butts, ash and other smokers» detritus in an eight foot wide white ashtray called Party Time 1995 (Denver Art Museum).
A group of South Korean researchers have found a way to not only divert some of those used
cigarette butts from
ending up in the environment, but also a way to make them into something useful.