How much does smoking affect the environment?

Question

There are lots of smokers, surely it has an effect on the envirnonment. I'm curious to know the statistics of say smoking against car pollution. It would be another reason for my girlfriend to quit.

Answer 1

Each cigarette manufacturing machines uses 4 miles of paper per hour which could be used instead for many other important things.
Tobacco is the most widely grown non-food crop in 120 countries therefore less land is available for food crop. Between 10 to 20 million people could be fed if food crop was grown in its place.
Burning tobacco is the main source of indoor pollution in the developed world as it contains over 4,000 dangerous chemicals.
One whole tree is needed to cure the tobacco for 300 cigarettes .
Cigarette smoke generates contains two of the main gases related to the greenhouse effect they are carbon dioxide and methane.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Smoking has little affect really. It is actually nothing compare to what billions of cars and factories can do. These things produce tonnes and tonnes of waste and exhaust and release them into the air. This is a daily basis and it affects the environment in a big way. So, I'd say smoking is just nothing.

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Answer 5

Well I'm no fan of smoking, but it has to be said that smokers do not constantly smoke, whereas cars do (while in use, and for some that is all day). The discarded stubbs are biodegradable, most of a car is not, particularly used engine oil and tyres.

I think you should look at the personal cost of smoking, both health and financial.

Answer 6

Only 6 billion tons of CO2 are produced by humans each year...90 Billion tons are produced by biological activity in the oceans each year, 90 billion tons are produced by volcanos and decomposing carbon based life each year. Humans have only contributed 0.28% to global warming. The amount created by smoking is NOTHING. The amount created by the human species is NEXT TO NOTHING.

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Answer 7

smoking affect environment

Answer 8

The impact is probably so small. It is countries like China and the US that need to start making changes, they pump out so much crap from industries, even if eveyone in the UK did something to try and help the environment, unless these countries make changes there is no point. Tell your girlfriend she is smoking poison and smoking causes really bad wrinkles in woman that may help!

Answer 9

It's not just affecting the environment, it affect there health, breath & you can smell it on there hair and clothes, I would not like to kiss a smoker. And if they smoke in a small area they are making other people smoke that don't wont to. I'm an Asthmatic and if someone smokes near me it can set of an attack. Have you ever seen smoke damage on curtains they are black and full of soot that what also happens to your lungs, how can that be good.

Answer 10

People have been smoking for a long longer than there has been cars etc.

Therefore if any damage to environment I think we would have seen something by now.