I can’t PROVE you wrong- but I can demonstrate you are wrong. Most cigarettes sold are filtered. These filters tend to end up in water systems and nature, or in land fills. They contain nicotine and other chemicals which can poison animals and disrupt ecosystems on top of the hazards of physical waste. The cultivation and processing of materials like Tobacco, chemicals, additives, etc as well as the packaging and the waste of all that are very detrimental to nature. The large use of water also takes it toll. But many people who smoke do not die of related causes- or die late in life anyway. If a person lives long enough they’ll die of cancer if nothing else kills them- but more than likely by late life they’ve already done the bulk of their damage to the environment.
Not only that- but as discussed a smoker will have a larger environmental impact that a person with an otherwise identical lifestyle who doesn’t smoke. Therefore not only will they have likely completed the bulk of their environmental damage before reaching the age smoking kills them- but they will also have increased that impact and how long it will persist past their death- with each generation contributing to a cumulative increase as the effects of the last have yet to have fully dispersed.
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