Tobacco kills over 8 million people globally each year – 7 million directly and 1.2 million indirectly. In India, the consumption of tobacco and the waste it produces is a real problem. Government action is needed to help people quit the habit and force the industry to take responsibility forContinue Reading
The World Health Organization (WHO) released a report Sunday that found the cultivation and distribution of tobacco may be wreaking havoc on the global environment. The tobacco industry’s carbon footprint from production, processing and transportation is equivalent to one-fifth of the carbon dioxide generated by the commercial airline sector eachContinue Reading
Pune, May 31, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Tobacco Packaging Market by Vendor Assessment, Technology Assessment, Partner & Customer Ecosystem, type/solution, service, organization size, end-use verticals, and Region – Global Tobacco Packaging Market Forecast to 2030, published by Market Data Centre, The Tobacco Packaging Market is projected to grow at aContinue Reading
May 31st marks World No Tobacco Day. An initiative of the World Health Organization, World No Tobacco Day is a yearly campaign that draws global attention to the entirely preventable harms caused by tobacco, the disingenuous activities of the tobacco industry, and the importance of implementing effective and evidence-based tobaccoContinue Reading
The most common source of plastic pollution in our environment is not bottles, plastic bags or food wrappers, but cigarette butts. Smokers stub out nearly 800,000 metric tonnes of cigarettes every year, enough butts to cover New York’s Central Park. They are in every country on the planet, from cityContinue Reading
•WHO urges govt to ban greenwashing activities of the tobacco industry to appear nature-friendly The World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and the Stopping Tobacco Organisations and Products (STOP), a global tobacco industry watchdog, have started a process to expose the tobacco industry’s destructive practices affectingContinue Reading
Cigarette butts with filters are the most commonly littered item worldwide, with a staggering 4.5 trillion of them tossed into the environment each year. This is a huge problem; many end up on beaches and in the ocean, and the tar from burnt tobacco in the filter can be toxicContinue Reading
An Iowa man who quit his job due to the tobacco and saliva his co-workers spat on the floor has been awarded unemployment benefits. Jeffrey Esaias resigned in late May from Novae Corp., a trailer manufacturing company with locations in Clarinda and Red Oak. Esaias had worked for the companyContinue Reading
Everyone knows that smoking harms human health. It is the leading cause of preventable death in the world and is responsible for one-fifth of all deaths in the U.S. every year. But a growing body of advocacy and research is shining a light on how the tobacco industry harms theContinue Reading
