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Cigarettes + Environment = Disaster

Cigarette use worldwide kills millions of people every year and increase the odds of animals getting cancer. Test your knowledge on cigarettes and the environment, when combined a recipe for disaster.

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Adolescents who use smokeless tobacco are more likely to become cigarette smokers.

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"Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People: A Report of the Surgeon General." U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevetion, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health. 17. Web.

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In the U.S., 33,951 people die each year from secondhand smoke-related heart disease.

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"The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress. A Report of the Surgeon General." U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health. Smoking-Attributable Morbidity, Mortality, and Economic Costs, 2014. Report.

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In 2017, the vast majority of high school students who used smokeless tobacco were male (8.9% in high school boys vs 1.9% in high school girls).

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance — United States, 2017. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 15 Jun 2018;67(8).

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1,685,068 pounds of toxic chemicals were released by tobacco product manufacturing facilities in the US in 2012. There goes the neighborhood!

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"TRI 312229: Other Tobacco Product Manufacturing Facilities (NAICS 312229)." A Center for Effective Government. Washington, DC. 2011. Web.

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The number of tobacco farms in the U.S. has gone from 415,315 in 1959 to 10,014 today.

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"Tobacco-Farms and Acres, by Acres Harvested, Quantity Harvested, and Value of Crop for Tobacco, for Selected States: 1964 and 1959." U.S. Department of Agriculture. Table 59. "Specified Crops by Acres Harvested: 2012 and 2007." U.S. Department of Agriculture. 2012. Table 37.

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Tobacco farmers are starting to grow chickpeas because of the increase in hummus sales. Support Big Hummus!

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"Could Hummus Put an End to Smoking?" Haaretz. 26 Nov. 2014. Web.

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One tree is killed for just 15 packs of Cigarettes.

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"Billions of trees. Millions of cigarette butts. One dangerous product." California Department of Public Health. 2015. Web.

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600 MILLION TREES are chopped down every year for Big Tobacco.

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"Tobacco and the environment." Action on Smoking and Health. Sept. 2015. Web.

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Cigarettes + Environment

Cigarettes + Environment = Disaster

Fact Adolescents who use smokeless tobacco are more likely to become cigarette smokers.

Fact In the U.S., 33,951 people die each year from secondhand smoke-related heart disease.

Fact In 2017, the vast majority of high school students who used smokeless tobacco were male (8.9% in high school boys vs 1.9% in high school girls).

Fact 1,685,068 pounds of toxic chemicals were released by tobacco product manufacturing facilities in the US in 2012. There goes the neighborhood!

Fact The number of tobacco farms in the U.S. has gone from 415,315 in 1959 to 10,014 today.

Fact Tobacco farmers are starting to grow chickpeas because of the increase in hummus sales. Support Big Hummus!

Fact One tree is killed for just 15 packs of Cigarettes.

Fact 600 MILLION TREES are chopped down every year for Big Tobacco.

Fact

Adolescents who use smokeless tobacco are more likely to become cigarette smokers.

Fact

In the U.S., 33,951 people die each year from secondhand smoke-related heart disease.

Fact

In 2017, the vast majority of high school students who used smokeless tobacco were male (8.9% in high school boys vs 1.9% in high school girls).

Fact

1,685,068 pounds of toxic chemicals were released by tobacco product manufacturing facilities in the US in 2012. There goes the neighborhood!

Fact

The number of tobacco farms in the U.S. has gone from 415,315 in 1959 to 10,014 today.

Fact

Tobacco farmers are starting to grow chickpeas because of the increase in hummus sales. Support Big Hummus!

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One tree is killed for just 15 packs of Cigarettes.

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600 MILLION TREES are chopped down every year for Big Tobacco.