Title : Environmental Public Health Impact Assessment (EHIA) process for tobacco processing plants
Abstract:
The environmental public health impacts of projects, plans, programs, policies, or legislative actions should be considered in the decision-making process. Because of these concerns, an environmental health impact assessment (EHIA) process is proposed for tobacco processing plants in India. Tabacco is responsible for nearly six million deaths each year and is expected to rise eight million by 2030 globally (World Health Organization, 2025). The environmental public health effects of tobacco are stained teeth and bad breath, brain cell domine health effects because of dissolved oxygen depletion levels and anxiety and depression mood swings, nicotine exposure change in brain damages and DNA and RNA as carcinogenic substance beyond 2 ppm , oral , lung and stomach oesophageal cancer. Environmental ppublic health can be defined as "the environmental science and art of preventing environmental health disease", prolonging life and improving quality of life through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations (public and private), communities and individuals. It is necessary to address psychological impacts on nearby residents as damage mental health. Environmental public health work is achieved by promoting healthy lifestyles, research and development on environmental health disease and injury prevention, and detecting, preventing and responding to infectious oral, esophageal and stomach cancerous mutagenic diseases (Vijayan Gurumurthy Iyer,2019) . The most of the significant terms are “environmental health inventory,” environmental health impact assessment (EHIA)” and “environmental health impact statement”. Environmental public health deals with the control of water and air pollution, soil-hazardous waste management, resource protection, and soil and ground water remediation. The significant legislative action is EHIA process and Environmental Quality (EQ) that included for the physical -chemical, biological, (natural or biophysical environment) and cultural, and socioeconomic environments (nan-made environment). Environmental health impact assessment (EHIA) process for tobacco public health plants and psychological impact assessment (PIA) process is discussed.
