WHO: Tobacco's environmental impact is devastating • FRANCE 24 English

The tobacco industry is a far greater threat than many realise as it is one of the world's biggest polluters, from leaving mountains of waste to driving global warming, the WHO said on May 31. Dr Kerstin Schotte was our guest. 
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[berndhase]

The main problem with the tobacco industry is the poisons the governments allow to be put into their products. If you look at smokers in the Mediterranean basin where people grow their own without these poisons the health impact is far less severe.

[judykinsman]

The most distressing thing I experienced when I visited Amsterdam was the mountains of cigarette butts everywhere.

[DaveTan]

I will start smoking to contribute to the clean up.

[campsitez]

not sure how vaping is bad. care to explain ?

[SameAsAnyOtherStranger]

A good stopgap measure between current practices and eventually not growing tobacco at all would be subsidizing crops grown in rotation with tobacco crops. Aside from the many benefits of not growing tobacco (avoiding soil depletion, not creating biohazardous polonium) this would help alleviate current food scarcity and better prepare farmers to deal with any future more catastrophic food scarcity.

[buoazej]

This video confuses cigaretes with tabaco.
Also, a lot of research in regards to this plant is a fraud.