Tobacco does not just negatively impact the health of individuals, as most of us are aware, it also endangers our environment. The cultivation, production, distribution, consumption, and waste from smoking have a meaningful negative impact. For example, the annual emissions from manufacturing, processing, and transportation of tobacco are equal to one-fifth of the climate pollution created by the commercial aviation sector.

The smoke from cigarettes and e-cigarettes itself is not a big impact, but 600 million trees are felled and burned annually to dry and cure tobacco leaves. Additionally, 6 kilometers of paper an hour is used to wrap and package cigarettes.

Further, when e-cigarette and cigarette waste isn’t disposed of properly, it makes its way into our environment, polluting water, air, and land with toxic chemicals [almost 600] and heavy metals. An estimated 750,000+ metric tons of cigarette butts and e-cigarette waste make their way into our environment every year.

And then there is the mental harm. Nicotine is often used as a way to reduce stress, but we often forget that stress is caused in part by the dependence on tobacco. Cigarettes lure us into thinking they soothe our stress while they actually seem to create it.

A bonus from avoiding smoking and vaping is you save a lot of money! All those Nicotine products add up to a lot of money. Not to mention the healthcare-related treatments due to their negative effects.