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Sustainability Report 2011

Sustainable business practice is at the heart of the Group’s strategy. By addressing our social, environmental and economic impacts, we build value for the business, for our shareholders and for other stakeholders.

Watch video

Watch our video to find out what sustainability means to some of our employees and how they are addressing some of the key challenges for our business.

Our product

  • We are committed to reducing the health risks of our products, so our approach is to make available a range of reduced-risk tobacco and nicotine products for adult consumers.
  • We’ve established a stand-alone company, Nicoventures, to explore the development and commercialisation of regulatory approved nicotine products.
  • We seek to grow our market share, but we do this responsibly – our marketing activities are not aimed at the underage and not misleading about the health risks of tobacco products.
  • We are working to fight the black market in tobacco, such as through developing new technologies further secure the supply chain.

Regulation

  • We support regulation based on sound evidence and are sharing objective evidence to help contribute to the policy debate on regulation.
  • To help contribute to the development of tobacco harm reduction policy, our Chief Scientific Officer sat on an expert panel of a workshop held by the US Food & Drug Administration on developing the scientific standards for the evaluation of modified risk tobacco products.
  • Where local laws aren’t as strict as our International Marketing Standards, we lobby for similar standards
  • We held a stakeholder dialogue on the opportunities of current and future carbon pricing mechanisms and carbon regulation. 

Sustainable agriculture

Back Our product Regulation Sustainable agriculture

Sustainability and our business

Our Chief Executive addresses the fundamental question of whether the cigarette business can be sustainable in the long term. Read his overview

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Our vision for sustainability
Progress against our goals
GRI indicators
Independent assurance
Our economic impact

What we're doing to prepare for the future

This Report focuses on the five areas of our sustainability agenda – harm reduction, marketplace, environment, supply chain and people and culture – in each of which we detail how we’re preparing for the future, as well as continuing to act responsibly today.

Our performance

Our perfomance summary

In 2011, we were, for the 10th year running, included in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index.
External recognition
Our performance summary


Regions and markets

Regions and markets

Find out about sustainability performance in our four regions and nine of our largest markets, including balanced scorecards of disaggregated data, employee viewpoints and details of sustainability activities.
Our regions and markets


Viewpoints

Viewpoints

Employees from across the business discuss how sustainability relates to them and their role, as well as comments from some of our stakeholders.
Viewpoints

YOU ASK US

Question: 1 2 3 4 5
Q Can scientific research paid for by tobacco companies really be impartial?
A Read our reply
Q How can you say you support regulation when it must damage your business?
A Read our reply
Q Doesn’t tobacco growing lead to a loss of biodiversity?
A Read our reply
Q Where fertile land is used to grow tobacco rather than food, doesn't tobacco cultivation contribute directly to hunger and malnutrition?
A Read our reply
Q Is it really feasible for you to continue to recruit talented employees in the future given that you sell cigarettes?
A Read our reply
 

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