Environment in a Toxic Relationship with Cigarettes

Cigarettes Butts and the Case for an Environmental Policy on Hazardous Cigarette Waste.

Cigarette smoking causes environmental pollution by releasing toxic air pollutants into the atmosphere. The cigarette butts also litter the environment, and the toxic chemicals in the residues seep into soils and waterways, thereby causing soil and water pollution, respectively.

The various effects of cigarettes on Environment are as follows-:

1. Direct Risk to Human Health-: Surveys and clinical studies prove that smoking cigarettes cause several health risks for humans. The following are the health risks associated with regular smoking.

a- Cancer

b- Autoimmune Disorder 

c- Type 2 Diabetes 

d- Lung Disease 

e- Heart Arrest

2. Deforestation-: The key ingredient in the manufacture of cigarettes is tobacco, and the reality is that most of it are planted in rainforests areas. Accordingly, it has contributed to major deforestation in the areas where it is planted.

Areas, where tobacco planting began on small lands, are now extensively covering large fields, and some of such places were covered by very dense forest.

3. Air Pollution Through Industrial Production Process and Farming.

Tobacco products negatively impact and damage our environment. Cigarette butts are not just a nuisance, they are toxic waste. They contain chemicals that contaminate our waterways and ground soil and harm our wildlife. Discard lit cigarette can causes fires, which can damage homes and land. It is also very costly to clean up cigarette waste- a problem that continues to grow every year.

At last I would like to conclude by saying that Cigarette smoking is hazardous for our health as well as for the Environment. So, intaking of smoke is harmful Nature.

-Khushi Sharma

BA(J&MC)

Amity, Jaipur