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Man speaks out about the tobacco industry

Every year, tobacco kills almost six million people.

Big Tobacco is driving the world’s greatest preventable epidemic of death and disease, aggressively expanding in the world’s lowest-income countries. Our campaign saves lives by working with allies across the globe to secure health policies over the objection, intimidation and interference of the tobacco industry. Learn More

Big Tobacco spends nearly $12.8 billion annually marketing its products in the U.S. alone. That's $3.5 million a day.

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Global Tobacco Treaty Unanimously Adopted

Gigi Kellett and TJ Faircloth at the UN

We helped ensure the unanimous adoption of the global tobacco treaty, the first global public health and corporate accountability treaty. The treaty protects nearly 90 percent of the world’s population.

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What's New
Far-reaching policy is being hammered out behind closed doors.
Corporate Accountability International
We’re shining the light on Big Business and the secret free-trade agreement meetings that open the door to assaults on public health policies across the Pacific Rim -- from making it even easier for Big Tobacco to file lawsuits against lifesaving measures to doing away with laws that protect our food. We’re demanding that these negotiations be made public.
'Smoking Causes Blindless' cigarette packaging
A world-first Australian law requiring tobacco companies to sell cigarettes in uniform packaging was upheld by the nation’s top court, a ruling that may set a precedent for other countries to follow.
ABC Nightline capture of child smoking
A year-long ABC News investigation examined the tobacco industry's expansion into Indonesia, which critics say is being fueled, in part, by one of the most powerful and profitable corporations in the United States.

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