Does the smoking of cigarettes or marijuana harm the Earth's environment?I know there are so many people out there who will say, "Why do you care if I smoke if I'm only hurting myself?" But I think that there are ways besides the obvious (secondhand smoke) that smoking anything can hurt not just the people and animals around you, but the entire planet or maybe even galaxy and so on, so forth.
Is there proof that that little bit of smoke from a cigarette or whatever will bring about further climate change?
drslowpoke
There is no proof that I know of that shows the smoke from a cigarette will contribute to global warming. You could look up the tons of tobacco that are produced and work out how many tons of carbon that contributes to the atmosphere, but remember that this is a renewable resource. Smoking itself (not the production of cigarettes) is more or less carbon neutral.
Incidentally, the cigarette butts are rather dangerous. They contain enough nicotene to make animals or children sick if they were to eat them.
Irishlass
Cigarettes are harmful, especially with the butts. Now they discinigrate sooner, but not too long ago a cigarette but would last for years outside on the ground. That can't be good. As far a pot goes, I don't find that to be harmful to the environment, it is a plant, as is tobacco, But a joint does not leave anything left to discard, people can roll the roaches up into a joint and waalaa, gone.
Robert
on the contrary, the gas causing the most problem is methane (CH4) which is destroyed by open coals or fire....smoking reduces the worst greenhouse gas. Some Euoropeans have even proposed reducing the developed world's dependence on meat in it's diet due to the huge amount of methane produced by animals via manure and flatulence. By reducing the number of animals by one half it's estimated that more than 1 million tons of CH4 will be cut from the atmosphere.
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