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Unexpected Elements

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The Environmental Cost of Tobacco Production

Tobacco provides no health benefits at all to humans but that's not the only problem farming. The crop itself is bad for the environment it poisons the soil to other crops so other crops can't be rotated. A single cigarette can be responsible for up to 14 grams of carbon dioxide throughout its life cycle. Every year tobacco production emits about 80 million tons of carbon dioxide.

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