No, there is no such thing as fairtrade tobacco.

The label fairtrade indicates fair production conditions: health and safety measures for workers, no child labour, fair wages and prices. This is well known from coffee, chocolate or tea. But for tobacco there ain’t no fairtrade standards nor a fairtrade label.

Neither the cultivation nor the use of tobacco are consistent with the principles of fairtrade due to its negative social, ecological and health impact. Members of the fairtrade network, therefore, do not at all consider tobacco in their product lines.

Tobacco harms the health of its consumers. Cigarettes kill half of their consumers and cause longtime illnesses for many users.

Tobacco also harms the producers. Tobacco growing destroys the environment due to deforestation and the heavy use of pesticides. Futhermore, tobacco growing has a negative impact on the food security of the farmers and the whole population in tobacco growing areas.

Read more about how tobacco threatens a sustainable development