HLSC 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Global Health, Nicotine, Fumigation

• School: Brock University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HLSC 1F90
• Professor: Lawrance Kelli- An

Document Summary

Here are 8 reasons : globally, tobacco 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. 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. Map included: the global share of agricultural land devoted to tobacco is less than 1%, but tobacco agriculture accounts for 2-4% of global deforestation. About 3kg of wood to flue cure 1kg of tobacco. Tobacco growing accounted for 26% of all deforestation in. 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 package cigarettes. Deforestation of cigarettes-extended video: large amounts of pesticides must be used to grow tobacco; many global south workers apply these extremely poisonous pesticides with no protection.