What are the impacts of a cigarette on our environment?

It all starts in the developing countries, where 75% of the global tobacco is grown. A strategy primarily financial. Tobacco cultivation is the first to use GMOs is more profitable than traditional food crops, particularly crucial in Africa.

Once harvested, the plant should be dried with the means at hand: trees are cut and burned in very large quantities. It takes a hectare of dry wood for a hectare of tobacco. The cigarette consuming paper, at an impressive rate: the current machines can use up to 6 km of cigarette paper per hour.

That is not all. A cigarette before combustion, contains over 2500 chemical compounds more or less natural fragrances and flavours for the most part. Its packaging does not in the lightness. A plastic film or aluminum, packaging board, a film of cellophane… The product is ready. Its components have traveled tens of thousands of miles before landing in Europe or the United States. They disseminate, is consumed, 4000 substances and complete their cycle to the state of butt. Which laid in the wild, will nearly twelve years to disappear.