Here are the main topics featured in March 2024's newsletter. Access the complete edition here.

• Knowledge Hub News:

Juul Executives Estimated 2.6M Job Losses for Tobacco Farmers by 2045

Zambia Country Report

• E-library:

Tobacco Product Waste: 170 Tonnes Annually in India Alone

Marine Macrolitter and Cigarette Butts Hazard Multiple-Use Marine Protected Area and Fishing Community at Brazil 

• In the media:

England and Wales: Disposable Vapes to be Banned from June | BBC

Spain: Tobacco Companies Will Have to Start Paying for Cigarette Butt Pollution | ABC

Here are the main topics featured in March 2024's newsletter. Access the complete edition here.

• Knowledge Hub News:

A Case Study on Successful Crop Shifting and Diversification

• E-library:

Escaping Immoral Plants: the Dynamic of Access and the Moral Economy of Tobacco Farming on the Slopes of Sindoro-Sumbing

Peronia peronii as a bio-indicator to assess the toxicity of waterpipe tobacco leachates in aquatic and sediment media

• In the media:

Promoting Women’s Land Rights Could Stem Tobacco Growing | Monitor

Adoption of Alternative Crops to Tobacco is Transforming Fortunes of Farmers in Migori | Western Insight

Healthy Farming, Healthy Planet: The Environmental Case Against Tobacco Farming | Development Gateway

Here are the main topics featured in March 2024's newsletter. Access the complete edition here.

• Knowledge Hub News:

Shifting Trends: Best Practices in Implementing Articles 17 and 18 of the WHO FCTC in Kenya

• E-library:

“Just Suffering. That’s It!”: Perspectives of Tobacco Farming Households on Tobacco Growing and Alternatives in Mozambique

Mapping and Modeling impacts of Tobacco Farming on Local Higher Plant Diversity: A Case Study in Yunnan Province, China

• In the media:

Tobacco industry production in Mozambique declined by more than 70% in six months | Observador

Corporations and Communities – is Big Tobacco Using Child and Forced Labour in Malawi? | Daily Maverick

Here are the main topics featured in March 2024's newsletter. Access the complete edition here.

• Knowledge Hub News:

A view on the Brazilian Diversification Program

Merging Technical Aid with Food Policies Key for Tobacco Alternatives, Researcher Says

• E-library:

Farmers’ Willingness to Stop Tobacco Cultivation and Perception of Alternate Food Crops

Occupational health hazards of bidi workers and their families in India: a scoping review

• In the media:

Alternatives from Seedbed to Tobacco Barn | Unfairtobacco

Uganda - Unfolding Disaster: Arua Heads to Food Insecurity as Tobacco Growing Takes Toll | Sunday Monitor

Brazil - Paraguayans in a Situation Analogous to Slavery for Two Months Are Rescued From a Clandestine Cigarette Factory in Rio de Janeiro | G1

Here are the main topics featured in March 2024's newsletter. Access the complete edition here.

• E-library:

The Economics of Tobacco Farming in North Macedonia

Occupational and Reproductive Health Challenges among Female Tobacco Farmers

• In the media:

Switching from Tobacco Yields Benefits for Farmers in Malawi | WHO Africa

Tobacco Production in Zim: Unsustainability and Risks | The Standard

Disposable E-Cigarettes: A Problem That Should Not Have Been | Ocean Care

Disposable Vape Ban Welcomed by Recycling Boss | BBC

Here are the main topics featured in March 2024's newsletter. Access the complete edition here.

• Knowledge Hub News:

Protecting Children from Industry Exploitation

• E-library:

Determinants of Tobacco Cultivation in Hurungwe District, Zimbabwe

Farmers’ Perceptions of Unsafe Tobacco Cultivation in Bangladesh 

• In the media:

Tobacco Billions Not Paid | The Investigator

Tobacco Giant Faces Shareholders' Vote on Risks of Cigarette Litter: Down to Business | The Daily Gazete

Over 80% Bidi Workers Seek Alternative Employment To Avoid Health Hazards: Study | TBS News

Here are the main topics featured in March 2024's newsletter. Access the complete edition here.

• Knowledge Hub News:

Tobacco and the INC-4

Report Reveals Lagging Progress in Addressing Tobacco's Environmental Impact

Increasing Cooperation Between the WHO FCTC and the UN Plastic Treaty 

• E-library:

Understanding Farmers' Shift from Tobacco Cultivation | Tobacco Induced Diseases

Environmental abundance, characterization, and toxic pollutants released into water from cigarette butts | Science of The Total Environment

• In the media:

Lobby Convinces The Government That Reducing Smokers And Not Allowing Vaping 'harms' Family Farming | O Joio e o Trigo

Tobacco Cultivation: 30,000 Northern Families At Health Risk | The Daily Star

Here are the main topics featured in March 2024's newsletter. Access the complete edition here.

Knowledge Hub News:

• Community Organizations Drive Alternatives to Tobacco Growing in Brazil
• Why is Article 17 so Poorly Implemented – and How Can Parties Overcome That?

 E-library:

• Tobacco Policy (In)coherence in Mozambique: an Examination of National and Subnational Stakeholder Perspectives | Health Policy and Planning
• Support for Cigarette Filter Waste Policies among US Adults | Tobacco Control

In the media:

• Tanzania Becomes Africa’s Second Largest Tobacco Producer | Zimnow
• Tobacco Production On the Rise in Mozambique | The Macao News
• Sexual Abuse, Exploitation Rampant in Tobacco Farms | The Citizen

Here are the main topics featured in February 2024's newsletter. Access the complete edition here.

Knowledge Hub News:

• COP10 Decision Brings Environmental Concerns to Non-Producing Nations 

E-library:

• Messages about climate, pollution and social justice harms of tobacco as motivators to quit: an untapped communication opportunity? | Tobacco Control
• India's environmental burden of tobacco use and its policy implications | The Lancet
• Making of a capitalist frontier: tobacco cultivation and changing agrarian relations in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh | Asian Anthropology

In the media:

• Thrust On Alternatives To Tobacco Farming | TBS News
• More Tobacco Farmers Opting For Cocoa | Monitor
• Disposable Vape Ban: Local Communities Voiced Their Concerns – And The Government Has Listened | The Conversation

Here are the main topics featured in our special COP10 newsletter. Access the complete edition here.

Highlights:

• Tobacco, Environment, And The UN Plastics Treaty
• Diversification In Tobacco Growing Areas

In the media:

• Opening Address At The Tenth Session Of The Conference of the Parties (COP10) To The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control | WHO FCTC
• COP 10: Action Needed To Prevent Tobacco Industry Interference In Environmental Solutions | TC BMJ Blog
• Addressing The Environmental Toll Of Tobacco: Urgent Action Needed At COP10 | GATC
• At Brazil's Initiative, Conference Will Discuss The Impact Of Smoking On The Environment | JOTA
• Amid The Tobacco COP, The Lula Government Promises To Resume The Planting Diversification Program | GZH
• COP’s Role In Synergizing The Who Fctc Art 18 And The UN Plastics Treaty | GATC

Photo: WHO FCTC Secretariat)

Here are the main topics featured in December's newsletter. Access the complete edition here.

Knowledge Hub News:

• New Fact Sheets About Articles 17 And 18
• Meet Us At COP10 for Dialogues On The Implementation Of Articles 17 And 18

 
E-library:

• Cigarette Filter Fibres As A Sink And Source Of Trace Metals In Coastal Waters | Chemosphere
• Tobacco Industry Presence And Practices In Mozambique: A ‘Chaotic’ But Worthy Market | Tobacco Control
• Hosting the Tobacco Industry Supply Chain and Political Interference | Nicotine & Tobacco Research

In the media:

• For The First Time, Brazil Includes The Green Tobacco Sickness In Its List Of Occupational Related Diseases | Diário Oficial da União
• E-Cigarettes: France Backs Bill To Ban Disposable Vapes | BBC
• Australia Begins Crackdown On Vaping, To Ban Import Of Single-Use Devices | Reuters

Here are the main topics featured in November's newsletter. Access the complete edition here.

Knowledge Hub News:

• Tobacco Industry Sponsors Study Yielding Questionable Data on Farmers
• Launch of Toolkit for Article 17 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

E-library:

• Environmental persistence, bioaccumulation, and hazards of chemicals in e-cigarette e-liquids: short-listing chemicals for risk assessments | Tobacco Control
• Cellulose acetate cigarette filter is hazardous to human health | Tobacco Control
• Protecting public health and the environment: towards a general ban on cellulose acetate cigarette filters in the European Union | Front. Public Health

In the media:

• Malawi Finally Ratifies Tobacco Control Convention, But Many Farmers Are Loyal to the Crop | Health Policy Watch
• Pakistan: Swapping Tobacco Growing into Crops Farming Vital to Overcome Food Insecurity, Health Risks: Experts | Urdu Point
• Designed to be a global benchmark, tobacco diversification faces obstacles in Brazil | O Joio e o Trigo

(Photo: Tobacco farmer Celírio da Silva in front of his house in Brazil. By João Ripper / CETAB)

Here are the topics featured in this month's newsletter. To access the complete edition, please click here.

Knowledge Hub News:

• A Farmer's Battle to Make Alliance One Accountable for Pesticide-Induced Disease
• Podcast: Tobacco Farming Mythbusters
• Discover our Image Bank

In the media:

• India: Policy drafted to discourage tobacco farming
• Brazil: The largest straw cigarette producer enters the list of slave labor
• Australia breaches WHO treaty with carbon neutral certification of big tobacco company

Event:

• Launch of Toolkit for Article 17 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control