From start to finish, the tobacco life-cycle is an overwhelmingly polluting and damaging process. Tobacco devastates the environment. It is responsible for: large-scale deforestation (1); catastrophic carbon emissions (2); loss of biodiversity, including wildlife (3); depletion of the planet’s water, fossil fuel and metal resources (3); desertification, depleting soil fertility (3); exuberant emission of greenhouse gases (4); contamination of drinking water (3); emission of toxicants in the air via direct, second- and third-hand smoke (3); non-biodegradable cigarette butts (5,6); and degradation of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems (7,8).