How does smoking pollute the environment?

Answer 1

it affect our land with cigarette butt which has been discarded to the ground . the chemicals then spread out to the land and affect it . it takes 25 years to discompose those millions cigarette butt.

Answer 2

No, it doesn't.

• When tobacco is grown, its leaves remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
• When it is burnt in a cigarette, it releases the same carbon dioxide that it took from the atmosphere.
• So smoking is "carbon neutral".
• It is part of the carbon cycle.
• So smoking does not contribute to global warming.

Of course, smoking is a polluting and dangerous habit that kills millions of people round the world, but that is a separate matter.

Answer 3

The air pollution emitted by cigarettes is 10 times greater than diesel car exhaust, suggests a controlled experiment, reported in Tobacco Control.

Environmental tobacco smoke produces fine particulate matter, which is the most dangerous element of air pollution for health. Levels indoors can far exceed those outdoors, because new engine models and lead free fuels have cut the levels of particulate matter emissions from car exhausts, say the authors.

The controlled experiment was carried out in a private garage in a small mountain town in northern Italy. The town enjoys very low levels of particulate matter air pollution

A turbo diesel 2 liter engine was started and left idling for 30 minutes in the garage, with the doors closed, after which the doors were left open for four hours. The car was fueled with low sulfur fuel.

Three filter cigarettes were then lit up sequentially, and left smouldering for a further 30 minutes. The nicotine and tar content of each cigarette was 1 mg and 11.2 mg, respectively.

A portable analyzer took readings every two minutes during the experiments.

Combined particulate levels in the first hour after the engine had been started measured 88 ug/m3. Those recorded in the first hour after the cigarettes had been lit measured 830 ug/m3: 10 times greater.

The diesel engine exhaust doubled the particulate matter levels found outdoors at its peak; the environmental tobacco smoke particulate matter reached levels 15 times those measured outdoors.

Another answer:

People think that second hand smoke is very dangerous, and this is true. They think that the chemicals being released into the air may pollute it. But maybe they should not be worried about something as small as cigarettes. They should be worried about huge manufacturers releasing harmful toxins into the air.

Answer 4

It isn't.

Smoking uses tobacco and other vegetation that recently removed carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (when they were growing). Burning them in cigarettes releases that same carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere. So smoking is carbon neutral.

Answer 5

it harms trees because when it burns, it causes chemicals to go into the air and the trees absorb them and it hurts them! So come on! Don't smoke!

Answer 6

yes, it is carbon that is released into the ozone.

Answer 7

Yes, it can. Smoking like all other greenhouse gases can hurt the atmosphere.

Answer 8

Smog is the combination of Smoke and Fog. It is a pollutant at the ground level.