How much damage to the environment am i causing through smoking?

Question

I smoke perhaps about 5 f**s a day and several joints. On the weekend i occasionly bong some salvia. My question is simply this, how much damage am i causing my thiis practice? Is it say, as much as operating a car? Or more than perhaps that? Plus, is smoking crack contributing to the greenhouse effect?

Answer 1

Agriculture is one of the most polluting industries there is.  They dump insecticides and herbicides on the land, which run off into ponds, lakes, streams, rivers, and eventually the ocean.  They burn fuel in order to power their machines that apply those pesticides.  They also burn fuel to harvest and process the leaves (the manufacture of cigarettes.)  And then there's the fuel used to transport the final product (cigarettes) from Virginia (or wherever,) to the wholsesale warehouse, to the retail store, and finally to your home.  How many times have you driven your car to go for a cigarette run?  If you didn't need the cigarettes, would you have gone out?  And finally, there's the land that is used to grow the tobacco, that could otherwise grow trees.  Trees absorb carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas,) in much larger amounts than tobacco.  Wow, that's a lot of land that is being wasted to grow not a food crop, but a crop that causes so much harm and no good whatsoever.  What a waste.  I really don't know if it's as much as operating a car, but it certainly has an impact.  

It probably also has an impact on the cost of food.  Have you noticed that corn and wheat have gone way up in price recently?  That's because corn is being used for ethanol (for E85 gas,) and so the price went up (supply and demand.)  So farmers started growing more corn and less wheat.  Now there's a wheat shortage, and so the price of wheat has gone up (supply and demand again.)  Imagine if everyone just quit smoking, and those tobacco farmers could all grow food instead?  Okay, off topic, I know.

Crack smoking definitely has an impact on the envornment.  Crack users don't give a sh*t about the environment, and do whatever they want.  How could they not contribute, just by their everyday activities?  It's not necessarily the smoking, as much as the users' other activities that are the problem.

Answer 2

No harm whatsoever, whatever floats your boat, have fun

Answer 3

no damage at all from any of that

Answer 4

YES. IF WE BREATH IT I COULD KILL US IF WE BREATH TOO MUCH OF THE SMOKE. IF YOUR SOMKING PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE TRY TO STOP...... THANKS!

Answer 5

Each year nearly 600 million trees are destroyed to provide fuel to dry tobacco. Put in another way one tree is destroyed for every 300 cigarettes.

Smoking pollutes the environment with toxic smoke and with the noxious poisons from millions and thousands of millions of discarded cigarette butts.

Answer 6

yes sooo stop smoking!

Answer 7

How much damage are you doing to you?

Answer 8

just polluting it a tinsy bit more, that's ok though cus' our world's going to blow up anyhow...

peace

Answer 9

there'd be no point trying to see if your smoking habits destroy the environment when you and everyone that's passive smoked your smoke's dead.

Answer 10

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5CKcM5m8wSM&f...

dont.....

Answer 11

Any smoke causes pollution.

Your worst pollution is indoor, so if you don't live alone, you are causing the worst problems very close to hand.

And, your really inside pollution is in you. You could start easing the pollution for one guy first!

Answer 12

The car you drive and the electricity you use produces about 10,000 times the pollution a few  cigarettes cause.

The harm is to yourself if you are one of the 6-8% of smokers that gets lung cancer from it.

Answer 13

I asked just about the same question you have here about 5 months ago.  Here are the websites that I found the most helpful.  You are welcome to view my question, there are more answers there with more details.

http://www.sandsifters.org/12.html

http://www.cigarettelitter.org/index.asp

Answer 14

Your body will break down before the environment does. The only thing green about crack is the money you spend on it.