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Tobacco and unsustainable development

Anyone who wants to invest sustainably must opt ​​out of the tobacco industry. Tobacco companies may make it look like they are working on sustainability, but then it is not about the main product, which threatens both human health and the environment. Tobacco production does not become sustainable because packaging or transportation are improved. Tobacco and nicotine still remain harmful.

Tobacco Free Portfolios

– working to remove tobacco investments from pension funds worldwide.

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Factsheet: Tobacco hinders sustainable development

Fact sheet showing how the tobacco industry and its products hinder virtually all of the UN's sustainability goals.

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Tobacco farmers have had enough – watch short film from Brazil

Two former tobacco farmers have switched to other activities. -The feeling of no longer having pesticides around. It...

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Swedish Match owner on Ukraine's blacklist

Philip Morris, which owns Swedish Match, has been placed on Ukraine's blacklist. The group is accused of evading tax payments in...

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Four industries responsible for every third death globally

The products of four industries – tobacco, fossil fuels, ultra-processed foods and alcohol – are responsible for at least a third of...

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Receives funding for tobacco research for two more years

The Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath in the UK receives continued funding for its work reviewing the...

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Greenwashing new category in Unfairtobacco's world map

Unfair Tobacco's interactive world map, with examples of the tobacco industry's strategies to maintain its position and attract new customers, has been...

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“Philip Morris' acquisition of Swedish Match – a threat to health and the environment”

Philip Morris' acquisition of Swedish Match is a call to activists, experts and victims to step up work for health, environmental...

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Flawed classification systems give tobacco companies high sustainability ratings

When tobacco companies see an opportunity to distract the world from the harm they cause, they take it. The latest example of...

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Keep Sweden Clean defends its collaboration with Swedish Match

Many voluntary organizations working for tobacco and nicotine freedom have urged Keep Sweden Clean, HSR, to stop collaborating with tobacco companies. But...

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Human rights lawyer Parul Sharma: “The tobacco industry – an industry beyond salvation”

The tobacco industry is in direct conflict with at least half of the UN's development goals in terms of social and environmental sustainability and in the supply chain...

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