A new use for tobacco?

Everyone knows why you smoke should not - it is terrible for your health, it is expensive, and it is dangerous, non-smoking around you. But if another reason to stay away requires the cancer sticks, here is one: it is not green. How often have out a cigarette butt you seen as someone carelessly flick your car window or stamp on the ground? It is not surprising that cigarettes are the most littered item. About one of every five pieces of litter is a cigarette butts.

But even if a smoker who has always places in an ashtray or trash containers, consider: the manufacture of cigarettes is very costly for the environment. Four miles from paper every hour is used to wrap cigarettes.Most of the filter not out nonbiodegradable and the toxic chemical bases as you slowly break down, to forget soil and groundwater landen.Und to produce in the air by the factories-cigarettes pumped the pollution.

But for all the tobacco caused damage, a silver lining to the Horizont.Wissenschaftler could find new uses for tobacco plants as demand for cigarettes down goes, and one thing you have come up with is tobacco as a natural pesticide. The presence of nicotine - the same toxin which is so addictive to people cigarettes - tobacco makes an effective weapon against insects.

The process works as follows: tobacco leaves are to approximately 900 degrees F in a vacuum that produced a unrefined substance called bio oil heated.This oil has different agricultural pests including the Colorado potato beetle, which is notoriously resistant against common insecticides to kill it is effective even after the nicotine is removed.

So means what?It means that an organic pesticide movement along the way, maybe is good for all of us, especially tobacco farmers, who need someone to buy your plants.

What do you think of tobacco as a natural pesticide? would make it to feel better to know your food against insects, using a plant rather than an artificial chemical protected was? or want to stay away from tobacco altogether rather? please share!

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