Impactswww.david baxendale.com/Flickrhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/ The climate crisis is driving people to substance abuse Extreme weather has decimated crops and incomes in northern India. To soothe their anxiety, agricultural workers are turning to tobacco and alcohol.
CausesBen Schumin/Flickr Tobacco: Vaping and smoking drive environmental harm from farm to fingertip The tobacco supply chain has harmful consequences for forests, oceans and the climate, and also for farmers and their families who produce the crop — all to an extent that is not yet fully known.