As the video demonstrates, the so-called CSR of the tobacco industry comes in many friendly forms where the short-term benefit is obvious, but its more insidious nature is less apparent. Tobacco industry CSR activities are used as discreet means to indirectly influence and make tobacco business palatable to the public. The solution therefore is to ban so-called TI CSR or its publication; and where this is not possible, work towards an environment where such activities are denormalized in accordance with the WHO FCTC.
What you will learn
- How CSR is used by the tobacco industry
- What building blocks are necessary to create an environment where tobacco industry CSR is de-normalized
- What policy solutions exist as alternatives to tobacco industry CSR
Materials used in this chapter
Reports and references in the discussion
- Guidelines for the implementation of Article 5.3 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control:
- Tobacco industry and corporate responsibility… an inherent contradiction
- Corporate social irresponsibility: tobacco industry fails international standards
- WHO FCTC Article 5.3 Best Practices
- 2019 Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index
- Tobacco Explained: The truth about the tobacco industry … in its own words
- Addiction at Any Cost
- Otañez, M. G., Muggli, M. E., Hurt, R. D., & Glantz, S. A. (2006). Eliminating child labour in Malawi: a British American Tobacco corporate responsibility project to sidestep tobacco labour exploitation. Tobacco control
- Open Letter to the ILO to Reject Tobacco Funding letter
- Raising Tobacco Taxes
- Sustainable Funding Models for Tobacco Control