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Annually, the tobacco industry costs the world:
🔵600 million trees
🔵200 000 hectares of land
🔵22 billion tonnes of water
🔵84 million tonnes of CO2.
🔵& more than 8 million human lives
#SayNoToTobacco! It threatens our environment and our health.
🔵600 million trees
🔵200 000 hectares of land
🔵22 billion tonnes of water
🔵84 million tonnes of CO2.
🔵& more than 8 million human lives
#SayNoToTobacco! It threatens our environment and our health.
Tobacco takes up to 9 months to mature, making it difficult for smallholder farmers to grow food crops within the same year.
It also degrades the soil, depletes its essential nutrients and decreases its fertility, making it difficult to grow food.
#NoTobacco #TobaccoExposed
It also degrades the soil, depletes its essential nutrients and decreases its fertility, making it difficult to grow food.
#NoTobacco #TobaccoExposed
349M people🌍 are facing acute food insecurity, many of them living in low & middle-income countries where tobacco cultivation has increased in the last decade.
Planting tobacco:
🔴reduces soil fertility & productivity
🔴limits capacity to grow other crops
🔴leads to more hunger
Planting tobacco:
🔴reduces soil fertility & productivity
🔴limits capacity to grow other crops
🔴leads to more hunger
In the ongoing budget session, the Jharkhand government has passed a bill to amend the fine for smoking and spitting in public.
Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Jharkhand Amendment bill 2021 would impose a fine of ₹1,000 on those who are caught smoking or spitting in public places.
Earlier, the fine for the same offence was ₹200. The state health minister also mentioned that selling tobacco to consume less than 21 years of age would be a punishable offence.
