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Article

3 Jul 2016

Author:
Swedwatch

Executive Summary

This report offers an in-depth study into the global tobacco industry’s impacts on human rights and the environment, and presents a case study from cultivation areas across Bangladesh. Findings include adverse impacts on farmers, their families, on valuable natural forest resources, and on communities living adjacent to tobacco leaf operations run by one of the United Kingdom’s largest companies, British AmericanTobacco plc. (BAT). 

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