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Tobacco 101
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Environmental Impacts
Cigarette butts have been found in the stomachs of fish, whales, and birds which leads to ingestion of hazardous chemicals and digestive blockages. Read on to learn how smoking impacts our environment.
- Cigarette butts have been found in the stomachs of fish, whales, birds and other marine animals which leads to ingestion of hazardous chemicals and digestive blockages.
- Discarded butts can pose serious health concerns for pets, particularly in playground and park settings. It only takes two or three cigarette butts ingested by a small pet to seriously harm or kill them.
- Each year nearly 600 million trees are destroyed to provide fuel to dry tobacco. Put another way, one tree is destroyed for every 300 cigarettes.
- In southern Africa alone an estimated 200,000 hectares of woodlands are cut annually to support tobacco farming.
- The tobacco manufacturing process produces liquid, solid, and airborne wastes.
- Because there’s no nutritional value, when an animal eats a cigarette butt or several cigarette butts, they feel full and can actually starve to death.
- Curing is the drying of the tobacco leaf which in most developing countries means that acres of trees are chopped down and burned in order to dry the tobacco leaf.
- A modern cigarette manufacturing machine will use more than six kilometres of paper per hour.
- The world annually discards about 4.3 trillion cigarette butts.
- Traditional butts are made up of “synthetic polymer cellulose acetate” and never degrade, only breaking apart after roughly 12 years.