Tobacco Day (WNTD) Resources on the theme:
Related World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) Resources on the theme: “Tobacco: threat to our environment” : The Environmental Damage of Tobacco affects land, air, and water destroying life, including human habitat and health. Below are some resources on environmental damage from tobacco. Stephen Hamann
1 WHO World No Tobacco Day (WNTD): Questions and answers on the environmental impact of tobacco;
https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/q-a-world-no-tobacco-day-2022
“A tobacco farmer who plants cultivates and harvests tobacco may absorb as much nicotine per day as found in 50 cigarettes. Green Tobacco Sickness (GTS) is a form of nicotine poisoning that occurs in about 1 in 4 farmers.”
2 UnfairTobacco on WNTD, the environmental impact of tobacco; https://unfairtobacco.org/en/world-no-tobacco-day-2022-tobacco-threat-environment/#/
“The tobacco industry’s ecological footprint is equivalent to 84 million tons of CO2 annually”
3 STOP website: https://exposetobacco.org/news/effects-of-tobacco-on-environment/?utm_source=mc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=bbt
“The tobacco industry cuts down 600 million trees every year to produce cigarettes (it takes approximately one tree to produce about 15 packs of cigarettes).”
Stephen Hamann
