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World No Tobacco Day: WHO raises alarm on tobacco industry environmental impact, human health

Tobacco damages both environment and human health (File Photo)

Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed new information on the extent to which tobacco damages both the environment and human health, calling for steps to make the industry more accountable for the destruction it is causing.

Every year the tobacco industry costs the world more than 8 million human lives, 600 million trees, 200 000 hectares of land, 22 billion tonnes of water and 84 million tonnes of CO2.

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