text=<UL><LI>UK smokers throw away around 200 million cigarette butts and 20 million packets EVERY DAY!</LI>
<LI>In 1999 smokers’ materials (cigarette ends, matches etc) caused 123 deaths in 5,200 accidental house fires. </LI>
<LI>The Kings Cross Underground station fire in 1987 which killed 31 people is believed to have been started by a dropped match.</LI>
<LI>Tobacco is dried to preserve it, in poorer countries trees are cut down to provide the fuel for this process.  It is estimated that one hectare of forest is needed to dry one hectare of tobacco.</LI>
<LI>Cigarettes are wrapped in paper and use large amounts of paper and therefore more forests are being destroyed.  A modern cigarette manufacturing machine uses six kilometres of paper per hour.</LI>
<LI>Tobacco plants need large amounts of fertilisers, herbicides and pesticides, up to 16 applications in a 3 month period.  Commonly used are aldicarb and chlorphyrifos, both highly toxic and methyl bromide an ozone-depleting chemical.  These chemicals also find there way into the soil and rivers and ultimately the food chain.</LI>
<LI>A cigarette is a mini chemical factory, puffing out over 4000 chemicals.</LI></UL>