Smoking Tobacco
What are the effects on the Environment
Tobacco and the Environment
The environment is greatly effected by cigarettes in all forms including the making them smoking them and getting rid of them. Saving the environment is a vital step for improving our future and other upcoming generations yet smoking tobacco is in the way.
deforestation
cigarette making
Many trees are affected by deforestation, 5.7 pounds of wood is used not for the cigarette but for the packaging for the cigarettes.
cigarettes effecting areas
approximately 2000km3 of forests are cut down each year dues to tobacco farming. Which is something new rely on for oxygen. In order to make new land for tobacco farms trees are being destroyed in order for this to happen
trees for cigarettes
Each year nearly 600 million trees are destroyed to provide fuel for dry tobacco, which goes into the process of firing and burning the tobacco to create a cigarette
climate change
Climate change
One of the causes of climate change is the making of cigarettes which causes pollution amongst the earths surface.
Smoking
Smoking a cigarette can also cause pollution as it releases smoke into the earths atmosphere
climate change
smoking tobacco is ruining our world as it is burning the earths atmosphere with the pollution let off by cigarettes.
cleaning up cigarettes
During the clean up Australia day there was a total of 17% of all rubbish was cigarettes which a substantially large number.
litter around them world
Litter of cigarettes have a wild effect on not only Australia but a global rate which is ruining the environment
litter of cigarette butts
The local environment should not be considered a littering ground for smokers there are many facilities to dump butts
yet many smokers refuse to take this action.
tobacco farming
where is tobacco farming
Tobacco farms are found and spread all across the world but most commonly found in Zimbabwe
Child Labour
instead of school young girls under the age of twelve are working on tobacco farms
These girls are not legally old enough to even buy a packet of cigarettes, yet workers as young as 12 are being slowly poisoned by nicotine.
farmers
Many farmers are changing to tobacco farming instead of food and crops as they will make more of a profit. This is becoming a trend for farmers as they have an increase in money made from tobacco.