By the end of 2022, a 1.7% decrease in cigarette production in Russia prevented 320,000 trees from being cut down. In this respect Wrote TASS agency, which refers to the press service of Roslesinforga.
“If we remember that about 6 trillion cigarettes are produced annually in the world and 600 million trees are cut down for this, approximately 320 thousand trees were saved thanks to the reduction in production (based on 0.0001 trees for the production of one cigarette). ),” said department manager Pavel Chashchin.
In general, he explained, about 800 hectares of mature forest is uncut. According to Chashchin, such a territory is equivalent to the territory of the four principalities of Monaco.
Russian government in the first half of March approved amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation for the production and circulation of unlicensed cigarettes.
In mid-April, Irina Okolnikova, pulmonologist, therapist at the Hadassah Israeli clinic in Skolkovo saidWhen using electronic cigarettes and similar smoking devices, a person does not really inhale the combustion products of nicotine and harmful impurities contained in ordinary cigarettes. However, nicotine itself and the chemicals that make up the electronic cigarette liquid affect the human body and health negatively, just like cigarettes.