Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

Cigarette butts are non-biodegradable and toxic. They can leach poisonous chemicals into water and soil for years.

San Francisco is stopping Big Tobacco from targeting children by prohibiting the sale of all flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes.

Tobacco not only negatively impacts one’s health, it also harms the environment. Did you know that the production of 300 cigarettes uses one whole tree?

Tobacco not only negatively impacts one’s health, it also harms the environment. Did you know that the production of 300 cigarettes uses one whole tree?

In Indonesia, kids are getting hooked on tobacco. Cigarettes are cheap and easy to access, making it within reach of children.

81% of kids who use tobacco started with a flavored product. Act now by telling Congress to protect kids from these products.

How does Big Tobacco get kids hooked? Big Tobacco hooks kids with flavored tobacco products.

Banning menthol makes tobacco less attractive to youth–that’s why Canada is doing it.

81 percent of kids who have ever used tobacco products started with a flavored product.

Tobacco products should not look like candy, period. When kids can’t tell the difference, it is very clear who Big Tobacco is targeting.

Big Tobacco targets women. The number of females who smoke is predicted to double between 2005 and 2025.

Big Tobacco has many tricks up their sleeves to make tobacco more addictive.

Big Tobacco spends $18 to market its deadly products for every $1 spent on prevention.

As Big Tobacco targets low-income countries, Nigerians have increased their demand for stronger tobacco control regulations.

Did you know that in the ‘50s and ‘60s, tobacco companies bought and sponsored their own TV programs?

Big Tobacco knows that to stay in business, they need our kids as “replacement customers.”

The younger a smoker is when they start, the more likely they are to become addicted.

Big Tobacco targets children through marketing, advertising, and promotion.

This Economist article exposes how the Tobacco Industry is targeting African countries.

Some tobacco farms in Indonesian employee children.

California joins Hawaii as the second state to increase tobacco sales age to 21.

You must be 21 years old to purchase tobacco products in California.

Some e-cigarette paraphernalia that looks like toys.

Shop keepers in Bengaluru continue to sell tobacco to minors.

The FDA needs to take action on American Spirit’s misleading cigarette packaging.

Big Tobacco regularly contests the science of smoking.

Five new legislative bills that restrict the use of tobacco and e-cigarettes.

Many children are employed illegally by the tobacco industry.

4.5 trillion cigarette butts are dropped yearly.

Cigarette production kills about 377,000 football fields worth of trees every year.

Cigarette butts create 1.69 billion pounds of toxic trash every year.

Along with the pesticides it takes to grow tobacco, cigarette production also uses a lot of trees.

Cigarette production uses a lot of trees.

Big Tobacco uses a few million pounds of pesticides a year.

Smoking releases about 2.6 billion kg of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere a year.

Cigarette butts are the most littered item on beaches.

The age to purchase cigarettes and tobacco products in Chicago is now 21 instead of 18.

Graphic warning labels on cigarette packs in the Philippines.

International Women’s Day is a great reminder of how the tobacco industry targets women.

1.69 billion pounds of cigarette butts end up as waste each year.

The California Assembly approves raising the smoking age to 21.

Exposure to smoking in movies will lead to 6.4M U.S. children becoming smokers.

Demand that PTI be kicked out of the Inter-Agency Committee on Tobacco Control.

A U.S. court dealt a blow to Big Tobacco in the battle over regulating menthol cigarettes.

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids president, Matt Myers, discusses how Big Tobacco is targeting poor countries in Africa.

Hold BAT accountable for using bribery to corrupt tobacco control laws in Africa.

British American Tobacco bribed government officials in African countries.

The tobacco industry targets children with colorful wrappers and candy flavors.

One benefit of quitting smoking: saving money.

It’s simple: If tobacco is out of sight, it is out of mind for teens.