how does smoking ruin the environment?

Question

besides littering

Answer 1

Cigarettes are made from tobacco, a tall leafy plant that is grown almost everywhere in the world. The tobacco plant contains a drug called nicotine. Nicotine is a deadly poison - it can kill a person in less than an hour if even a small amount is injected into the blood-stream. Tobacco smoke contains very tiny amounts of nicotine that aren't deadly, but are still very bad for your health.

Tobacco smoke also contains over 4,000 chemicals, many of which are known causes of cancer. Just a few of these chemicals are:

Carbon Monoxide (found in car exhaust)
Arsenic (rat poison)
Ammonia (found in window cleaner)
Acetone (found in nail polish remover)
Hydrogen Cyanide (gas chamber poison)
Napthalene (found in mothballs)
Sulphur Compounds (found in matches)
Lead
Volatile Alcohol
Formaldehyde (used as embalming fluid)
Butane (lighter fluid)

Second hand smoke:
Even if you yourself don't smoke, you can still get sick or die from tobacco. When you breathe the smoke from another person's cigarette, it can be as bad as smoking cigarettes yourself. Learn more about what second-hand smoke does to your lungs
Second-hand smoke is made up of the smoke from the burning end of a cigarette or pipe, and the smoke that is blown into the air by the person smoking.

Second-hand smoke has over 4,000 chemicals; many of them cause cancer. Two thirds of the smoke from a cigarette is not inhaled by the smoker, but enters the air around the smoker.

Second-hand smoke has at least twice the amount of nicotine and tar as the smoke inhaled by the smoker
It has five times the amount of carbon monoxide, a deadly gas that robs the blood of oxygen
It also contains higher levels of ammonia (better known as window cleaner) and cadmium (also found in batteries)
The concentration of hydrogen cyanide (a poisonous gas that attacks respiratory enzymes) in tobacco smoke is considered toxic
It contains nitrogen dioxide which is measured at fifty times higher than the standard for harm
Non-smokers who breathe in second-hand smoke can get many serious diseases. It can cause lung cancer, heart disease, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (emphysema and chronic bronchitis) asthma and other diseases
Regular exposure to second-hand smoke increases the risk of lung disease by 25% and heart disease by 10%

Answer 2

You mean people smoking tobacco?

It doesn't in any measurable way. The total volume of emitted smoke is incredibly small compared to, say, a oil-fired power plant.

Answer 3

How many people do you think LOVE the smell of cigarette smoke in the air? And do YOU think those same people will enjoy the Environment of a good restaurant- if there are lots of Smokers present? Rocket Science- this isn't! :)

Answer 4

packs the air with rotton smelly smoke

Answer 5

it pollutes the air like this:

all of the gasses and smoke become dirty and then mix, and form a layer over the earth and let the sun get in, but traps it from getting out. its a saadd, sad thing. i HATE, ABSOLUTELY HATE SMOKING.

Answer 6

The filters aren't biodegradable either.

Answer 7

polutes the air, killing the trees and eating at the layer that protects us from the sun, (that layer is what keeps the earth from gettng so ht it becmesabig ball of fire)

Answer 8

it cause people to have breathing problem,damage lungs

Answer 9

because of the gas it omittes