#WHO raises alarm on #tobacco #industry environmental impact

source: https://www.who.int/news/item/31-05-2022-who-raises-alarm-on-tobacco-industry-environmental-impact

Every year the tobacco industry costs the world more than 8 million human lives, 600 million trees, 200 000 hectares of land, 22 billion tonnes of #water and 84 million tonnes of #CO2.

The majority of tobacco is grown in low-and-middle-income countries, where water and #farmland are often desperately needed to produce food for the region. Instead, they are being used to grow deadly tobacco plants, while more and more land is being cleared of forests.

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