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Planting trees without leaving home: tobacco company direct-to-consumer CSR efforts

Year: 2011

Type: article

Abstract: In developing countries tobacco and cigarette production involves the diversion of arable land from food to tobacco production. It also involves child labour (despite tobacco companies' corporate social responsibility (CSR) campaigns against the use of child labour in tobacco growing fields), heavy pesticide use (often bought from tobacco companies on loan) and deforestation.1–7 Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company (SFNTC) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Reynolds American Inc. (Winston-Salem, NC, USA), which is, in turn, 42% owned by British American Tobacco (BAT). Tobacco companies, BAT in particular, have a long history of using CSR to support lobbying activities, to repair their reputation and to turn non-tobacco non-governmental organisations into …

Source: Tobacco Control

DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2011-050219

Authors: Mariaelena Gonzalez, Pamela M Ling, Stanton A Glantz

Institution: University of California, San Francisco

Language: English

Topic: Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology

Subfield: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Life on land

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Cancer Institute