Cigarette/ Danger of an entire production chain

Sky world news /Cigarette/ Danger of an entire production chain .

 the tobacco industry, in addition to its impact on health, generates considerable pollution throughout its production chain, from the use of precious resources such as water, the exploitation of land arable crops and deforestation, but also, the disease of farmers - often young children - to consumers who emit tons of CO2 and carelessly throw their cigarette butts in the street.

Beyond its impact on public health, the tobacco industry is also the cause of considerable environmental damage, between mountains of pollution and emissions contributing to climate change.

The tobacco industry is one of the biggest polluters we know.

Tobacco, poison for our Planet, following the environmental footprint of the sector as a whole, from the cultivation of plants to the manufacture of tobacco products, including consumption and waste.

While the industry is responsible for the loss of 600 million trees, tobacco farming uses 200,000 hectares of land and 22 billion tonnes of water each year, and emits around 84 million tonnes of CO2, according to the report. 

The cigarette butt is a very polluting waste. Thrown in nature, it requires approximately twelve years to be eliminated. 4.500 billion cigarette butts scattered in nature Tobacco products, which are the most commonly discarded litter on the planet, contain more than 7,000 chemical compounds which, once thrown away, spread through the environment Each of the 4.5 trillion cigarette butts that end up in nature each year can pollute up to 100 liters of water.

The health hazards of tobacco are not limited to consumption and waste: almost a quarter of tobacco growers suffer from green tobacco sickness, a form of nicotine poisoning through the skin.

In constant contact with tobacco leaves, these growers consume the equivalent of the nicotine contained in 50 cigarettes a day.