Cigarette Smoke

A Cause of Air Pollution.

ISSUE:
• Smoking is a widely acknowledged danger both
to Human Health and the Environment.
– According to the Cause for Disease Control (CDC),
each year, smoking leads to 443,000 deaths a year,
and nearly 88,000 from second-hand smoke.
– 30 minutes of continuous exposure to cigarette
smoke is equivalent to ten times the particulate matter
of a car engine.
ISSUE:
• Air Pollution kills more people worldwide each
year than does AIDS, malaria, diabetes or
tuberculosis.
– For the United States and Europe, air pollution is equivalent in
detrimental health effects to smoking 0.4 to 1.6 cigarettes per day.
– In China the numbers are far worse; on bad days the health effects of
air pollution are comparable to the harm done smoking three packs per
day (60 cigarettes) by every man, woman, and child.

• Air pollution is arguably the greatest

environmental catastrophe in the world today.
CAUSES OF SMOKING:
• Burning of Tobaccos releases hazardous
chemicals
– This dirties the air and pollutes it.
– Making it harder for other people to breathe.
• Secondhand smoking can cause the same effects as
regular smoking
– Can cause higher chance of ear and lung infections
– Increase the severity of asthma
– Heart Disease, coughing, sore throat, and other health disease
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