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Factsheet E-Cigarettes: Supply Chains | Environment | Human Rights

This factsheet shows the supply chains of e-cigarettes and the impact of mining lithium for the production of batteries.

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Factsheet Cigarettes: Supply Chains | Environment | Human Rights

This factsheet shows the supply chains of cigarettes and the impact of growing tobacco on people and the environment.

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Factsheet Heated Tobacco Products: Supply Chains | Environment | Human Rights

This factsheet shows the supply chains of heated tobacco products and the impact of mining copper which is used for the batteries.

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Factsheet Water pipes: Supply Chains | Environment | Human Rights

This factsheet shows the supply chains of water pipes and their accessories, exemplifying the impact of mining bauxite for aluminium production.

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Tobacco Industry Interference Reports

Factsheets & Brochures

Factsheet Children have a Right to a Tobacco-free World

This factsheet shows which children's rights are violated by smoking and tobacco cultivation.  

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Brochure Children’s Rights and Tobacco Control

This brochure offers an overview on how children's rights are violated by tobacco and what can be done to improve the implementation of children's rights.

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Factsheet Women have a right to a tobacco-free world

This factsheet shows which women's rights are violated by smoking and tobacco cultivation.

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Brochure Women’s Rights and Tobacco Control

The brochure provides an overview of how women's rights are violated by tobacco and how their enforcement could be improved in the context of tobacco.

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SDG-Factsheet Tobacco | Poverty | Hunger

This SDG-Factsheet shows how tobacco is linked to poverty and hunger.

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SDG-Factsheet Tobacco and Global Partnership

This factsheet shows how tobacco control and Development Goal 17 fit together.

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SDG-Factsheet Tobacco | Education

This factsheet shows the impact of tobacco growing and smoking on education.

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SDG-Factsheet Tobacco | Decent Work

This factsheet shows the health risks for workers inherent in secondhand smoke at workplaces and in working conditions in tobacco growing.  

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SDG-Factsheet Tobacco | Water | Oceans

This factsheet shows how tobacco growing, cigarette manufacturing and cigarette butts are polluting water, waterbodies and oceans.  

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SDG-Factsheet Tobacco | Forests

This factsheet shows how tobacco growing, cigarette manufacturing and cigarette butts are affecting forests worldwide.

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Bangladesh: Tobacco Ruins Soil and Water Along Matamuhuri River

This article shows how tobacco cultivation contaminates Matamuhuri river and its river banks.

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Tanzania: Tobacco takes its toll on the miombo woodlands

This article shows how tobacco cultivation drives deforestation in the miombo woodlands in Tanzania.

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Analysis: Highjacking the SDGs?

This analysis discusses how the private sector - and particularly the tobacco industry - is involved in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Study Alternative Livelihoods to Tobacco

There are alternative livelihoods to tobacco. We present examples from Brazil, Kenya, and Bangladesh.

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Card Tobacco Growing or Food

This card shows: tobacco cultivation jeopardizes food security.

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Case Study Legumes and Sunflower in Malawi

Case study on legumes and sunflower as alternative to tobacco in Malawi  

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Case Study Kenaf in Malaysia

Case study on kenaf cultivation as alternative to tobacco in Malaysia  

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Case Study Herbs in Germany

Case study on herbs as alternative to tobacco in Germany

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Study Tobacco: Antisocial, Unfair, Harmful to the Environment

This study uses tobacco consumption and tobacco cultivation as an example to show the interlinkages between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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DVD Big Tobacco

Only 3 copies left! DVD containing 4 documentaries on tobacco growing in Tanzania, Malawi and Brazil + some German language background information on trade, working conditions and environment.

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Education resources [German only]

Simulation game Tobacco in Bralavia [German only]

The simulation game Tobacco in Bralavia [German] recreates the situation in a tobacco growing country. It includes role descriptions, event cards, additional information materials, and game instructions. It can be played in the classroom or online.

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Crafting Model Our Right to a Tobacco-free World [German only]

Crafting model including introduction for teachers, instructions for crafting and templates for the model.

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Education Set: Tobacco Bale [German only]

Interactive education set about tobacco cultivation in the Global South Contents: 1 card game, 1 board game, 1 DVD with documentaries and 1 booklet Suitable for students in secoundary school, adolescents and adults. (all contents are German)

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Manual Exhibition Big Tobacco: Profits & Lies [German only]

The manual for the exhibition Big Tobacco contains questionnaires for different grades to be used for lessons on the exhibition.

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More German resources

Study Tobacco Industry Strategies [German only]

This study shows tobacco industry strategies, namely advertising campaigns, legal actionsand threads, and political interference. [German only]

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Study Double Burden [German only]

This German study analyses the impact of tobacco use and tobacco cultivation on the Global South.

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Study Ruined Nature [German only]

This study describes how tobacco cultivation, cigarette manufacturing and cigarette butts harm the environment.  

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Case Study Organic Farming in Brazil [German only]

Case study [8German] on organic farming as an alternative to tobacco in Brazil

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Study Tobacco Production in Africa [German only]

This study describes the conditions, under which tobacco is grown in Africa. Examples from Zimbabwe, Malawi and Kenya show poverty, child and forced labour, but also alternative livelihoods to tobacco.

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Study Tobacco Cultivation in Latin America [German only]

This study offers an overview on tobacco cultivation in Latin American countries as well as details on cigar manufacturing.

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Study Double Standards [German only]

This study offers an overview of the tobacco industry in Asia and shows the different features and receptions of tobacco in Asian countries.

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Brochure Big Tobacco [German only]

This brochure provides a general overview of tobacco production in countries of the South.

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Sticker Child Labour [German only]

Sticker Child Labour

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Sticker Exploitation [German only]

Sticker Exploitation

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Sticker Tropical Deforestation [German only]

Sticker Deforestation

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