How Smoking Affects the Environment?

Smoking and the Environment: Smoking not only affects the smokers health, it also greatly
influences the surrounding atmosphere. Smoke and cigarette utts affect the environment the
most, resulting into air, water and land pollution. Even the production of cigarettes influences the
environment a lot. !ead more..
All smokers think that y smoking they are only damaging their health. "hey are ignorant aout
the fact that their smoking is indirectly affecting others health. And they are one of the direct
contriutors to the environmental pollution.
"here are few environmental issues, which every smoker should e aware of. Smoking affects
your environment greatly. "his article would e discussing the various effects of smoking on the
environment.
How Smoking #auses Air $ollution? %smoking environment pollution&
't is (uite evident that smoking causes air pollution and to some e)tent also pollutes the ground.
Appro)imately *+++ chemicals are present in cigarettes, which are reathed out and released in
the atmosphere. ,ut of the total -orth American population .+/ of them are smokers and the
percentage of the smoking population in developing countries is much higher. "his indicates that
an enormous (uantity of pollution is eing released in the atmosphere every day.
How Smoking #auses 0and and 1ater $ollution? %smoking environment damage&
$ollution caused due to smoking is not confined only to the air or ody ut to some e)tent it is
also responsile in polluting the land and the water. Every day millions of cigarette utts are left
on the ground. 2a)imum of the cigarette utts finally end up in lakes and rivers. 3y mistake
fishes and other water animals eat these utts resulting in death of these water odies. "he
remaining utts left on the ground will appro)imately take 45647 years to decompose. "he various
additives and chemicals are leached into the soil, polluting the soil as well as plants. 8uring dry
seasons cigarette utts can even cause ma9or fire, which is even harmful for the environment.
How #igarette $roduction Affects Environment? %effects of smoking environment&
Effects of smoking environment:
2a9or impact on the environment is due the production of the cigarettes. "he land, which is used
for the cultivation of toacco plants, could e etter used for producing food for the third world
countries. 2oreover as the toacco plant is highly susceptile to pests and disease so to maintain
their proper growth and health various chemicals and pesticides are eing sprayed. :or the
production and packaging of the cigarette re(uires a lot of trees.
'n an hour cigarette6manufacturing unit re(uires almost * miles of paper for rolling and packaging
of the cigarettes. ;ust to produce .++ cigarettes one tree is eing wasted. Energy and water is also
eing wasted for the production of the cigarettes as well as the chemical wastes from the
manufacturing unit is also dumped into the soil. Hence it is clear the cigarettes are in total adding
huge strain on the ody and environment.
1ith the use of more advance technology toacco industry can help in decreasing the strain from
the environment. 3ut 9ust to save illions of dollar profit<year the industry is not willing to go for
the advanced technology. "he est and the easiest way to control this environmental destruction, is
to stop uying this harmful product. 't is tough to (uit smoking ut directly %your health& and
indirectly %environment& it will e eneficial for you only.