Tobacco: Threat to our environment
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Tobacco negatively impacts the enviroment and causes significant damage throughout its cycle – from cultivation, manufacture, distribution, consumption, and post-consumption.
Impact on land and agriculture
302,746
Hectares
of land in ASEAN are devoted to tobacco growing and curing
(over 4 times the size of Singapore)
Indonesia
100000
Philippines
10000
Thailand
10000
Harms tobacco farmers
Exposure to pesticides, like dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) can cause Birth defects, Blood disorders, Benign and malignant tumors and Neurological disorder.
Handing tobacco leaves may lead to GREEN TOBACCO SICKNESS (GTS)
Pollution from tobacco smoke
1.1 BILLION
SMOKERS WORLDWIDE
Trillion
0
Cigarettes each year
Billion
0
Sticks in ASEAN
Pollution from waste products
Waste products from Electronic cigarettes & Heated Tobacco Products contain non-biodegradable materials and toxic chemicals.
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