HLSC 1F90 Lecture 10: Lecture Note 10
9 Feb 2016
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Hlsc lecture #10- week 10- november 19th, 2015. Here are 8 reasons: globally, tobacco use kills 6 million people/year. About 1/6 % of canada"s entire population (35. 7 million) 1 person dies every 6 seconds due to 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-middle income countries. About 3kg of wood to flue cure 1kg of tobacco. Tobacco growing accounted for 26% of all deforestation in malwai, 1990-1995. Tobacco growing accounts for 3. 5% of annual deforestation in some areas of. Tanzania: cigarette-manufacturing uses up to 6 kilometers of paper an hour to roll and packages cigarettes, large amounts of pesticides must be used to grow tobacco; many global south workers apply these extremely poisonous pesticides with no protection. Imidacloprid: blocks the central nervous system of insects; highly toxic to birds, fish, bees.
