World No Tobacco Day 2022 - Tobacco is impacting your health, and the future of our planet.

Every year, besides the 8 million human lives lost to tobacco use, 200,000 hectares of forests are flattened to grow and cure tobacco leaves which is equivalent to 600 million trees lost. For every 15 boxes of cigarettes sold, one tree is chopped down.
The tobacco industry produces six trillion cigarettes per year that are consumed by one billion smokers worldwide.
The tobacco industry invests heavily in corporate “greenwashing” initiatives as a cover for its activities, for example funding tobacco product waste clean-up programmes and reporting on environmental standards often set by the companies themselves.
In line with Articles 17 and 18 of the Convention on the Provision of Viable Alternative Activities and Protection of the Environment and its Policy Guidelines, the Secretariat of the WHO FCTC is calling on governments to better regulate tobacco agriculture and to help tobacco farmers worldwide switch to environmentally friendly alternative crop production.