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4 Reasons Smoking is Not Eco-friendly.

March 19, 2009 by Liz Lewis  
Filed under Exposed!, Smoking

Everyone knows that smoking really is bad for your health. Turns out it’s not so good for the health of the planet either.

Here’s why…

  • 998031_cigarette_butt Tobacco growing requires the use of more pesticides per acre than any other crop.
  • Flue curing, the process of drying out tobacco leaves requires an external heat source and this contributes to deforestation. While the US mostly uses oil, coal, or liquid petroleum gas, developing countries account for 85% of all tobacco grown and use wood-burning fire for flue curing.
  • Each cigarette emits around 14 milligrams of fine particulate matter which doesn’t seem like much. But if you multiple it by the estimated 5.5 trillion cigarettes smoked annual, it becomes more than 80,000 tons of fine particular matter emitted each year.
  • Cigarettes might go up in smoke but the butts remain and account for 1.7 billion pounds of non-biodegradable trash.

You can read the full article here

(image from SXU.hu)

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One Response to “4 Reasons Smoking is Not Eco-friendly.”
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