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The environmental externalities of tobacco manufacturing: A review of tobacco industry reporting
Growing research and public awareness of the environmental impacts of tobacco present an opportunity for environmental science and public health to work together. Various United Nations agencies share interests in mitigating the environmental costs of tobacco. Since 2000, transnational tobacco indus...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6889105/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30852780 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-019-01148-3 |
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author | Hendlin, Yogi Hale Bialous, Stella A. |
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description | Growing research and public awareness of the environmental impacts of tobacco present an opportunity for environmental science and public health to work together. Various United Nations agencies share interests in mitigating the environmental costs of tobacco. Since 2000, transnational tobacco industry consolidation has accelerated, spotlighting the specific companies responsible for the environmental and human harms along the tobacco production chain. Simultaneously, corporate social responsibility norms have led the industry to disclose statistics on the environmental harms their business causes. Yet, independent and consistent reporting remain hurdles to accurately assessing tobacco’s environmental impact. This article is the first to analyze publicly available industry data on tobacco manufacturing pollution. Tobacco’s significant environmental impact suggests this industry should be included in environmental analyses as a driver of environmental degradation influencing climate change. Countries aiming to meet UN Sustainable Development Goals must act to reduce environmental harms caused by the tobacco industry. |
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spelling | pubmed-68891052019-12-16 The environmental externalities of tobacco manufacturing: A review of tobacco industry reporting Hendlin, Yogi Hale Bialous, Stella A. Ambio Review Growing research and public awareness of the environmental impacts of tobacco present an opportunity for environmental science and public health to work together. Various United Nations agencies share interests in mitigating the environmental costs of tobacco. Since 2000, transnational tobacco industry consolidation has accelerated, spotlighting the specific companies responsible for the environmental and human harms along the tobacco production chain. Simultaneously, corporate social responsibility norms have led the industry to disclose statistics on the environmental harms their business causes. Yet, independent and consistent reporting remain hurdles to accurately assessing tobacco’s environmental impact. This article is the first to analyze publicly available industry data on tobacco manufacturing pollution. Tobacco’s significant environmental impact suggests this industry should be included in environmental analyses as a driver of environmental degradation influencing climate change. Countries aiming to meet UN Sustainable Development Goals must act to reduce environmental harms caused by the tobacco industry. Springer Netherlands 2019-03-09 2020-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6889105/ /pubmed/30852780 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-019-01148-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Review Hendlin, Yogi Hale Bialous, Stella A. The environmental externalities of tobacco manufacturing: A review of tobacco industry reporting |
title | The environmental externalities of tobacco manufacturing: A review of tobacco industry reporting |
title_full | The environmental externalities of tobacco manufacturing: A review of tobacco industry reporting |
title_fullStr | The environmental externalities of tobacco manufacturing: A review of tobacco industry reporting |
title_full_unstemmed | The environmental externalities of tobacco manufacturing: A review of tobacco industry reporting |
title_short | The environmental externalities of tobacco manufacturing: A review of tobacco industry reporting |
title_sort | environmental externalities of tobacco manufacturing: a review of tobacco industry reporting |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6889105/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30852780 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-019-01148-3 |
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