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| 31 May is World No Tobacco Day |
As the world is heading towards observing the 2022 World No Tobacco Day on the 31st of May environmentalists and health practitioners across the world are encouraging smokers to be strong and quit this addictive habit.
Cigarette buts contributes a very bigger percentage of waste that is dumped in most countries and they end up being washed into our oceans affecting marine life.
World No Tobacco Day is a day that was set aside by World Health Organization to allow activists to spread awareness against the use of tobacco
With no known nutritional and health benefits,Tobacco is a slow poison that normally destroys the bodies and vital parts of smokers slowly until they become very weak making them prone to opportunistic diseases.
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| Cigarette buts are reported to be among the commonly discarded waste globally. |
Effects of Tobacco To The Environment
3.5 million hectares of lands are destroyed to pave way for tobacco growing every year across the globe
4.5 million cigarette buts are improperly dumped contributing to a bigger percentage of toxic waste that finds itself in fresh water sources and oceans
No Tobacco awareness campaigners and Environmental and Health activists across the globe have united in calling for a tobacco free world.
We can't allow tobacco to destroy our children and parents health because of profits...Most of the income generated from tobacco sells also goes to medication for those affected by cancer,lung diseas and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (emphysema and chronic bronchitis)
There is a good reason they put a DANGER!!Smoking Can Kill You ! Warning of every cigarette pack.
Be wise ,Quit Smoking,Save Lives
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