A photographer left three cigarettes in a mason jar filled with soil for an entire year — taking a timelapse video to show what happens to them.

Photo Owl Time Lapse posted the video to YouTube on July 15 where it has received over 4.2 million views and counting.

“You guys really liked my in-soil timelapses, so I decided to do another one,” writes the photographer. “This time I put the cigarettes in a mason jar full of soil and left it in there for a whole year. Underground timelapse.”

The expertly produced video shows the fresh cigarette succumbing to the soil. It is not a slow process — barely two h