What the tobacco industry spent in 2021 on federal lobbying to weaken public health regulations.
In California, there’s a store that sells tobacco for every 293 kids – that’s nearly 10x more tobacco retailers than there are Starbucks.
Number of Californians who die every day as a result of the tobacco industry. For every death, 30 more people suffer from tobacco-related diseases – even if they don’t use tobacco.
Explore the tobacco industry’s damage
The tobacco industry currently spends billions each year on slick marketing tactics and political influence so they can profit off death and disease.1516
Learn more
Even for people who don’t use tobacco, there can be deadly consequences.17
Learn more
The industry calls kids their “replacement customers.”18 Big Tobacco sentences them to a lifetime of addiction and disease.
Learn more
This racist and unjust industry has strategically targeted certain communities with deadly products and manipulative messaging.19
Learn more
No one’s safe from the environmental damage and health risks from toxic tobacco waste and its plastic pollution.20212223242526
Learn more
Our media campaigns
Exhale
As four cities end tobacco sales, and smoking and lung cancer rates drop, a California without Big Tobacco is already happening.
Nicotine Equals Brain Poison
Nicotine is toxic for kids and young adults with developing brains.
Big Tobacco's Fantasyland
Big Tobacco’s trying to sell us a future without smoking, where vapes are a “safer alternative.” Their deception is dangerous – and deadly.
Story of Inequity
When manipulative and deceitful marketing is disguised as empathy and support, it’s easier to hook historically excluded groups.
Little Big Lie
Cigarette butts are made of microplastics – tiny toxic fibers that can contaminate our food chain and could make their way to you.
Secondhand Dangers
Exposure to secondhand smoke can happen at work, at home, or even outdoors – which puts everyone at risk for serious health problems.
We Are Not Profit
For too long the tobacco industry has been strategically killing the Black community with menthol cigarettes.
In the news
How Big Tobacco used George Floyd and Eric Garner to stoke fear among Black smokers
Cigarette butts are toxic plastic pollution. Should they be banned?
Puff, puff pass: a new vape with hazy origins takes JUUL's place
FDA says more than 5 million electronic cigarettes must be taken off the market
Times of San Diego: E-Cigarettes Alter Body’s Organs, UC San Diego Research Team Finds
Edge Media Network: Big Tobacco' Companies Leave Legacy of High LGBTQ Smoking Rates
In a First, California Plans to Clean Up Microplastics
Microplastics in the human body: What we know and don't know
FDA considers banning menthol cigarettes
FDA proposes ban on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars
Hold the industry accountable
California has already protected people from other harmful products, and it's time to hold the tobacco industry to the same standards.
