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Our Environment Must be Protected from Tobacco Product Waste
New Report from 3 Organizations Highlights European Union, French, and American Progress
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Tobacco and the Environment
Cigarettes are most commonly categorized as a health problem, but they are a huge environmental problem as well. The entire life cycle of a cigarette has an impact on the environment – from growing the tobacco ...
For an Earth Free of Tobacco Waste
By Yogi Hale Hendlin, PhD, Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, UCSF
We all know tobacco kills. But few stop to consider how tobacco also kills the planet.
Especially as it serves no socia...
Hold the Tobacco Industry Responsible for Harming our Global Environment
By Clif Curtis
For decades now, with cigarette sales having increased to more than six trillion in 2016, tobacco producers have refused to accept any significant responsibility for the serious, global enviro...
ASH Environmental Webinar Recap
When we think of tobacco, a lot of health issues immediately spring to mind – lung cancer, throat cancer, cardiovascular disease, tooth decay, asthma. But tobacco products also wreak havoc on our environment, a...
Earth Day 2016
The harmful impacts of smoking go well beyond each individual smoker. Cigarettes have a negative impact on the environment throughout their entire life cycle - from growing the tobacco to disposing of the butts...
