The health impacts of tobacco are widely known. What is less well known is the negative impact tobacco use has on the environment.

The production of tobacco products causes widespread environmental degradation beginning with the preparation of land for tobacco cultivation and continues on through the life-cycle of the tobacco products as they are manufactured, marketed and consumed.

A Special Hybrid Side Event during the Meetings of the Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions – Tobacco Product Waste: A Threat to the Environment took place on Friday 10 June 2022 from 1815 – 1945 hrs. CET.

The recording of the event can be accessed through this link (in English).

The presentations delivered during the side event can be accessed in the following links:

• Tobacco’s global environment footprint
• Economic Responsibility for the Human and Environmental Costs of Tobacco Product Waste
• Tobacco industry tactics around Single Use Plastics (SUP) policies and civil sociey efforts to countering these
• Tobacco is poisoning our planet

More resources and campaign assets can be found in this webpage for your use, as appropriate.