World No Tobacco Day: 8 million Per Year and Counting, How Much More Will We Lose to Tobacco?

Death of over 8 million people and widespread destruction of environment, through cultivation, production, distribution, consumption, and post-consumer waste, is a huge cost we are paying due to tobacco consumption, says World Health organization (WHO).

Tobacco is a killer. Millions perish every year worldwide due to tobacco use and we lose six hundred million of green cover for producing cigarettes, which consumes 22 billion tonnes of water putting a heavy load on ecosystem. Death of over 8 million people and widespread destruction of environment, through cultivation, production, distribution, consumption, and post-consumer waste, is a huge cost we are paying due to tobacco consumption, says World Health organization (WHO).