San Javier joins the initiative "Beaches without smoke"

He Municipality of San Javier has joined the initiative "Beaches without smoke "with three beaches where a special invitation is Your users do not smoke. The Minister of Health, Manuel Villegas and the Mayor of San Javier José Miguel Luengo visited yesterday beach El Fisherman, one of the beaches of the municipality marked as beaches without smoke, in which its users are especially invited not to smoke. Next to the El Pescador beach, the Accessible spaces of Castillico, in Santiago de la Ribera and beach Mistral, in La Manga del Mar Menor.

He Minister of Health, Manuel Villegas explained that this initiative It brings together both health and environmental aspects. The campaign develops under the motto "the normal thing is not to smoke" to sensitize , promote health and protect the environment. The aspects harmful to the health of a cigarette add to their ability to pollute the medium.

Villegas explained that the Nicotine and the tar of a cigarette butt contaminate 50 liters of water and that the butt takes 10 years to degrade. "We are, in addition, before the greatest plastic pollutant of the sea, "he said. Counselor who stated that "the cigar nozzles are made with cellulose acetate, a plastic component that is not biodegradable, so that these bioparticles end up in the sea, they ingest the fish and enter the trophic chain ".