The green question – How does smoking harm the climate?

– How does smoking harm the climate?

Each week, we answer a question on the environmental theme that we ask ourselves in our daily lives.

Posted today at 2:15 p.m.

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Think of cigarettes and smoking in general, and it is the impact on health that naturally comes to mind. Because, yes, smoking is bad. For oneself and for others. What is less documented and recorded by the scientific community are the harmful effects of this damn cigarette on the planet.

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An extensive study, published in the “Swiss Medical Review” in 2019, attests to the environmental impact of smoking. “It’s an activity that seems insignificant on the scale of a single cigarette. But if we take the global figures, this impact is immense”, comments Olivier Brüggimann, founder and director of EcoLive, in Bellevue (GE). He first cites the production chain, marketing (communication media, travel, etc.), manufacturing and packaging, not to mention all the substances in the product. The mere burning of a cigarette has an effect on the air.