The time is now to address the health effects of poor air quality, recognize the magnitude of the detrimental effects of our population, and to calculate the true costs of allowing poor air quality to impact the health of our citizens
Prof Kevin Fenton, National Director of Health and Wellbeing, Public Health England, says e-cigarettes have become the most popular quitting aid in England
Some people develop lipoid pneumonia, a condition where oil deposits build up in the lungs from inhaling burned vape oil
Training Details (Skip this part if you arent interested in AI programming) - I used 2000 synthetic 512x512 px training images (plus 200 synthetic validation images) - I did ZERO training on real images - I trained the "heads" for 4 epochs of 500 steps and the full network for another 4 epochs - Resnet50 backbone (Resnet101 caused OOM errors) using COCO pre-trained weights - Training took about 20 minutes on my computer - Final losses after the 8th epoch: loss: 0.3615 - rpn_class_loss: 0.0023 - rpn_bbox_loss: 0.1823 - mrcnn_class_loss: 0.0232 - mrcnn_bbox_loss: 0.0636 - mrcnn_mask_loss: 0.0901 - val_loss: 0.3261 - val_rpn_class_loss: 0.0013 - val_rpn_bbox_loss: 0.1875 - val_mrcnn_class_loss: 0.0043 - val_mrcnn_bbox_loss: 0.0535 - val_mrcnn_mask_loss: 0.0794 Results It's far from perfect, and probably isn't practical to bolt onto a robot right now, but with more training and improvements in GPU hardware, I think this could be a viable solution to pick up cigarette butts on a huge scale
Instead of a ban, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended that countries adopt a comprehensive mix of strategies including public education, smoking cessation services, advertising restrictions, sale restrictions to minors and taxation, to bring down smoking prevalence
