4 Reasons Smoking is Not Eco-friendly.
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…
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 …read more
Are IMF Loans Leading to Higher Rates of Tuberculosis?
No loan comes without conditions. You know what I mean. You’re required to make regular payments on time, pay interest, and are charged late payment fees etc when you’re not following the rules.
Well, it seems that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is no different. They, too, attach conditions on their loans to recipient countries. Conditions such as the country being required to reduce or limit their education, social services, and health expenditure in an effort to get inflation in check. The idea behind this is that, despite these cutbacks in services, once the country’s inflation has been controlled and economy …read more
