We’re calling PMI out during their annual shareholders’ meeting

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Dear Friend,

Every year, tobacco products kill 8 million people.

And yet, collectively we are paying -- with our taxes, our health, our lives, and our planet -- to sustain one of the world’s most deadly industries.

We cannot let this deadly industry destroy lives and harm the planet in service of its profits.

That’s why today we’re taking action. Why today? Because today is Philip Morris International’s (PMI) annual shareholders’ meeting, a giant pep rally where executives tout PR schemes and brag about profits. And a day when the media is paying particular attention to the corporations.

And we’re going to be there to make sure PMI can’t sweep their abuses under the rug!

These meetings are a tremendous opportunity for our campaign. On one of the most important days of the year for the corporation, we can make sure our voices are heard.

Add your name and demand that Big Tobacco be made to pay for its abuses.

Make Big Tobacco Pay!

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As if the lives lost weren’t bad enough, Big Tobacco’s abuses have a huge economic impact as well: $1.85 trillion¹, including healthcare costs as well as loss of productivity. This is equivalent to 1.8% of the world’s annual gross domestic product. Almost 40% of these costs occur in the Global South.

And it’s not just healthcare costs. There are environmental impacts and costs too. For example, around 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are discarded every year, making them the most littered item on Earth, and annual tobacco production emits and uses more than 80 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent.² People and governments are forced to pay the costs of the tobacco industry’s pollution.

Holding tobacco corporations legally and financially liable for the harms they cause has worked to curb Big Tobacco’s impacts in the past. We can make Big Tobacco pay for the costs of its deadly products. But we are going up against powerful and wealthy corporations. It’s going to take all of us taking action to make an impact.

Add your name and let’s make sure that PMI can’t ignore the voices of tens of thousands of people like you demanding accountability and liability for the tremendous damage it has caused.

Onward,

Daniel Dorado
Pronouns: he/him/his
Tobacco Campaign Director
Corporate Accountability

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1. Tobacconomics policy brief, Economic Costs of Tobacco Use

2. Exposetobacco.org, Talking Trash: Behind the Tobacco Industry’s “Green” Public Relations

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