Reduce: Tobacco

I wondered at including this since it is so bloody obvious. There is nothing about smoking that it good - nothing at all.

Tobacco is expensive - yet many people with very little money spend a generous portion of their income on it.

Smoking poisons the smoker and those around him/her.

Tobacco production uses up good arable land and is heavy in the use of pesticides (when did you ever hear of an organic cigarette?).

Cigarettes are produced by some of the most duplicitous and evil multinational corporations around. Contraband cigarettes (which are very common in Northern Ireland) are produced and distributed by organised crime, made by sweatshop labour and include even more harmful additives than regular brands.

Still many people who support ethical living still can't seem to kick the habit. No excuses - there is no benefit to be found in smoking tobacco (or indeed anything else!).