ArticleTobacco prevention & cessation2018
'Greenwashing' tobacco products through ecological and social/equity labelling: A potential threat to tobacco control.
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- Effects of cigarette greenwashing advertising on behavioral economic demand, puff topography, and health risk perception.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2026Article
- Independent companies in the tobacco supply chain: transparency and environmental social governance.Tobacco control · 2026Article
- Assessing sustainability effects of tobacco use and control in global supply chains.Nature communications · 2025Article
- The tobacco industry at the health-environment nexus: a framing analysis of the UK 'disposable' e-cigarette ban.Health promotion international · 2025Article
- Concerns Over Vuse e-Cigarette Digital Marketing and Implications for Public Health Regulation: Content Analysis.JMIR formative research · 2024Article
- Trends in Overall and Menthol Market Shares of Leading Cigarette Brands in the USA: 2014-2019.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
There has been significant growth in ecological/environmental labelling of products and services internationally in recent years. Such efforts have become an integral element of the marketing strategies used by many firms. Concerns have been raised, however, that for some companies, this is little more than 'greenwashing', i.e. a cynical attempt to boost sales without any meaningful underlying sensitivity or change, in practice. Given the extremely negative track record of the global tobacco industry
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