How Smoking Harms Our Environment by Mike Broemmel - LiveStrong

 
LOS ANGELES - June 28, 2015 - PRLog -- A great deal has been written about the harmful effects of smoking on an individual smoker. In addition, a good amount of literature exists discussing the negative impact of secondhand smoke. Not as much attention is paid to the way in which smoking hurts the environment. Nonetheless, smoking does negatively impact the environment in a number of different ways, according to WhosChoosing.org.

Types
Air pollution is one of the types of environmental damage caused by smoking, according to Smoking.Ygoy.com. For example, cigarettes contain about 4,000 chemicals, all of which end up released into the air when smoked. In addition, millions of cigarette butts end up polluting land and water each year. On a related note, the production of cigarettes includes the heavy application of chemicals in the cultivation of tobacco.

Misconceptions
A recurring misconception is that smoking does not actually damage the environment. The theory is that only a small amount of smoke is emitted from a cigarette into the ambient atmosphere. Although only a dozen or so puffs of smoke may emit from a typical cigarette, when that figure is multiplied by the millions of people who smoke daily, the amount of chemical-filled smoke that ends up in the air does impact the environment, according to WhosChoosing.org.

Considerations
One of the considerations to keep in mind is the impact smoking has on closed environments, like homes. Research demonstrates that air pollution levels in homes are significant to begin with and are made worse by smoking, according to the American Lung Association.

Geography
Thirty percent of North Americans smoke, and the percentage of smokers in underdeveloped nations is much higher, according to Smoking.Ygoy.com. Consequently, the environmental impact of smoking is more significant in the countries that can least-afford to deal with the problem.

Prevention/Solution
The only way to reduce the impact of smoking on the environment is for people to stop smoking cigarettes, cigars and pipes. In addition to reducing the negative environmental impact, stopping smoking improves the health of both smokers and those who are exposed to secondhand smoke.

Mike Broemmel

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