does cigarette smoke pollute?

Question

i mean not polluting our lungs, i mean general pollution which affects the ozone layer. u might think it's a stupid question, but there are lots of cigarettes smoked every day in the world.

hey big bear, you didn't read the whole freakin' question.

Answer 1

Not according to assistant professor Mike Rush of Wright College.

Answer 2

Absolutely. It is estimated that there are more than 4,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke and at least 50 of them have been proven to cause cancer. Most of the toxic chemicals of cigarette smoke, including carbon monoxide, benzene, formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide, are created when tobacco burns. Others such as lead, nitrosamines and nicotine are found naturally in unburned tobacco but are released as it burns. Health officials require manufacturers to test and report on 43 chemicals found in cigarette smoke -- including the six very dangerous ones now listed on all cartons.

If you don't believe that, just walk into a room full of smokers...and take a deeeeep breath..!

Answer 3

There's so little of that the answer is no. Stop worrying about the ozone layer. The hole over the Antactic is rapidly shrinking. Find something new.

Answer 4

World cigarette production is somewhere around 6 trillion per year (300,000million packets).
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/international/html/globaltrends.html

There are about 300,000 packets of cigs to a container lorry
http://www.intellectualloafing.com/activitiesfolder/estimationqsfolder/cigarettesmuggling.htm
300,000million divided by 300,000 = 100,000 container lorries.
100,000 container lorries at 37.5 m3 of volume =3.75million m3.

Assuming an average volume of a 22.7m tall tree is 1.08 m3 then that’s something
like 34.7million trees burnt a year.
http://www.farmforestline.com.au/pages/6.5_standing_tree.html

34.2 million trees cover 23,530 acres
http://www.agr.state.nc.us/stats/trees/xmastree.htm

That’s 60km2 of forest.

These are all very very rough figures but it gives you the scale of the problem. 60 km2 of burnt vegetation in the atmosphere a year is peanuts compared to the amount of exhaust, carbon, pesticides, fertilisers, poisons and other rubbish we are pumping out probably on a daily basis.

(I've pulled this together from trolling the net, someone please correct my assumptions if you see an obvious mistake.)