HLSC 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Herbicide, Butane, Imidacloprid
24 Feb 2015
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Why we should be concerned about tobacco use: globally, tobacco use kills 6 million people/year. Greater toronto area (5. 1) + ottawa (. 93) over 1/6 of canada"s entire population (34. 9) 1 person dies every 6 seconds due to tobacco tobacco accounts for 1 in 10 adult deaths. Current users will die of tobacco-related disease: by 2030, tobacco will kill 8 million people/year; mostly from low- and middle income countries. Tobacco sickness (absorb 2 packs of cigarettes a day) and major problems. Kenya, malawi, mozambique, tanzania, uganda, zambia, indonesia, philippines, About 3 kg of wood to flue cure 1 kg of tobacco. Tobacco growing accounted for 26% of all deforestation in malawi, 1990-1995. Tobacco growing accounts for 3. 5% of annual deforestation in some areas in tanzania: large amounts of pesticides must be used to grow tobacco; many global south workers apply these extremely poisonous pesticides with not protection. Imidacloprid: blocks the central nervous system of insects; highly toxic to bird, fish, bees.
