Why Tobacco Money Must Be Kept Out of the
International Labor Organization (ILO), an Infographic
British American Tobacco, Japan Tobacco International, and Philip Morris International, among others, have targeted the ILO as part of a global effort to rehabilitate their image. In the past decade, they have given ILO about $15 million to mask the $12 trillion they have cost global development. Such so-called corporate social responsibility (CSR) funds are meant to divert attention from the fact that tobacco production and consumption hinders progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); claiming, on an annual basis, 8 million lives, and leaving behind a devastating trail of social, economic, environmental and health harms (UNDP, 2017).
Read more about the topic here: https://ggtc.world/2019/10/30/an-open-letter-to-the-ilo/
