Cigarette smoke is a major cause of air pollution that negatively impacts both human health and the environment. According to the CDC, smoking leads to over 400,000 deaths per year in the US from both direct smoking and secondhand smoke. The particulate matter from a single cigarette is equivalent to ten times that of a car engine. Air pollution worldwide kills more people each year than AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and diabetes combined. For some regions, the health effects of air pollution are comparable to smoking multiple packs of cigarettes daily. Reducing smoking and improving air quality would significantly benefit public health on a global scale.
Cigarette smoke is a major cause of air pollution that negatively impacts both human health and the environment. According to the CDC, smoking leads to over 400,000 deaths per year in the US from both direct smoking and secondhand smoke. The particulate matter from a single cigarette is equivalent to ten times that of a car engine. Air pollution worldwide kills more people each year than AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and diabetes combined. For some regions, the health effects of air pollution are comparable to smoking multiple packs of cigarettes daily. Reducing smoking and improving air quality would significantly benefit public health on a global scale.
Cigarette smoke is a major cause of air pollution that negatively impacts both human health and the environment. According to the CDC, smoking leads to over 400,000 deaths per year in the US from both direct smoking and secondhand smoke. The particulate matter from a single cigarette is equivalent to ten times that of a car engine. Air pollution worldwide kills more people each year than AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and diabetes combined. For some regions, the health effects of air pollution are comparable to smoking multiple packs of cigarettes daily. Reducing smoking and improving air quality would significantly benefit public health on a global scale.
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 WHAT’S IN A CIGARETTE?: EFFECTS OF SMOKING: • Insert Word Here POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS: • Insert Word Here