When you open the biggest tobacco companies’ websites on the internet, it seems like they have nothing to do with cigarettes or smoking. The websites are so bright and beautiful, and they talk about sustainability, science, fighting climate change, empowering people, building a better future… you can almost forget that those companies make products that kill 8 million people every year and that their supply chain is extremely harmful to the environment – from cradle to grave.

Those companies use several strategies to try to hide all the damage they cause. And it’s not just about their websites: they promote programs against child labor and cleanup campaigns to collect cigarette butts from beaches, for instance. But those initiatives never truly solve the problems. 

In this episode, Dr. Stella Bialous tells us all about Corporate Social Responsibility in the tobacco industry. 

Our guest:

Dr. Stella Bialous – professor and researcher at the Center for Tobacco Control at the University of California San Francisco

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Unlocking the Tobacco Supply Chain is a podcast produced by the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Knowledge Hub for Articles 17 and 18, which is based in Brazil, in the Center for Studies on Tobacco and Health from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.

The information and views set out on this podcast are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), the Parties to the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products (the Protocol), or the Secretariat of the WHO FCTC and its Protocols.