Each year, over three million hectares of land are destroyed for tobacco cultivation
31st May is World No Tobacco Day and the theme for this year is Tobacco and Cardiovascular disease
If you have enough of those, the federal government can step in. Today it is sugar, but what comes next
(The average Americans total caloric intake grew from 2,109 calories in 1970 to 2,568 calories in 2010, as Eliza Barclay and I explained here though other estimates suggest some of those calories wound up in the trash, and the actual calorie increase was more like 250 calories per person, which is still enough to account for the obesity epidemic.) And a lot of things in our environments have changed over the past 50 years that may also have contributed to the rise in obesity
Cigarette butts take at least 10 years to biodegrade Cigarette butts have been found in the stomachs of fish, birds, whales and other sea creatures, who mistake them for food
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
