Viewing Tobacco Control in China Through an Environmental Perspective : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Viewing Tobacco Control in China Through an Environmental Perspective / timquijano
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| 説明 | ///Article produced for Greening the Beige///www.greeningthebeige.org/gtb/node/903quij.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/viewing-tobacco-control-in-...As a male foreigner who has conducted the management of government relations in China, I have been offered a whole lot of cigarettes. With this in mind, I was very surprised to hear the government's announcement that it will ban smoking in indoor public places beginning next month, with some notable exceptions–one of which being government offices. This post will describe a few environmental consequences which will be reduced by lower rates of smoking in China, assuming this regulation is at least marginally enforced.What makes it more acceptable to throw a cigarette butt on the ground than any other piece of trash? Littering of cigarette butts is, perhaps, the most pervasive of tobacco control problems. Wherever you go, you will find butts in the cracks of the sidewalk, as the butts with their non-biodegradable nature, will last almost forever. Many of the casually discarded cigarette butts eventually flow into natural waterways, at which point the toxins such as tar leach out into the soil and water, harming the local organisms. Fish are particularly sensitive to irresponsibly discarded cigarettes, often mistaking the floating butts for food, ingesting them and being poisoned by the chemicals they contain.The production of tobacco leaves also encourages significant deforestation, particularly in developing tropical states. The need for fuel to feed the fire or flue-curing process to dry tobacco leaves, has resulted in significant deforestation and carbon emissions. Furthermore, growing the high-nicotine tobacco that is demanded by today's tobacco market depletes the soil of its natural nutrients quickly, thus many tobacco growers are encouraged to move to virgin, or previously undomesticated, plots of land. This rewards a continuous movement into increasingly deep virgin forest, resulting in about 5% of deforestation.The environmental consequences of smoking cigarettes, thus, are quite remarkable. As with all numbers related to China, the numbers related to smoking in China are overwhelming–one in three smokers in the world is Chinese–thus, the Chinese authorities could considerably reduce the impact of recreational smoking on the environment.Sources: Smith, E., McDaniel, P. Covering their butts: responses to the cigarette litter problem. Tobacco Control. 1999;8:18-28. Available online.tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2010/10/21/tc.2010.0...Geist, H. Global assessment of deforestation related to tobacco farming. Tobacco Control. 1999;8:18-28. Available online.tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/8/1/18.abstractwww.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/world/asia/25china.htmlblog 回 twitter 回 facebook |
| 撮影日 | 2011-04-24 10:55:11 |
| 撮影者 | timquijano |
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| 撮影地 | 北京, 北京直辖市, 中國 地図 |
| カメラ | NIKON D40 , NIKON CORPORATION |
| 露出 | 0.02 sec (1/50) |
| 開放F値 | f/1.4 |
| 焦点距離 | 50 mm |