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Ecology, health... Why young people are turning away from tobacco

2023-05-12T17:26:25.195Z

Highlights: The daily consumption of minors increased from 25.1% in 2017 to 15.6% in 2022. Even if it meant choking on smoke inhalation, teenagers took their very first cigarette a few years ago to show that they were independent and free. Now they refuse to smoke for the same reasons. 4500 billion cigarette butts thrown each year in nature. Without being activists, teenagers can still play a role in the fight against global warming. They can be activists without being activists. You still have 89% to discover.


ANALYSIS - The daily consumption of minors increased from 25.1% in 2017 to 15.6% in 2022. They have massively converted to electronic cigarettes.


Even if it meant choking on smoke inhalation, teenagers took their very first cigarette a few years ago to show that they were independent and free. Now they refuse to smoke for the same reasons.

"I don't want to be a prisoner of this consumption," says Édouard, 17. This high school student from the west of Paris is one of those young people who, more and more numerous today, turn their backs on the pack of "cigarettes".

"It's not good for your health and it's causing a real ecological disaster," continues Édouard. Like all teenagers of his age, he keeps in mind this vertiginous data that circulates in a loop on social networks: 4500 billion cigarette butts thrown each year in nature.

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This pollution denounced by the associations at war against this addiction would today shake this youth, which has grown to the rhythm of the speeches of Greta Thunberg, engaged in the fight against global warming. Without being activists...

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Source: lefigaro

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