The fact that today most people are aware of the health impacts of using tobacco is a victory for global health and well-being. It moves us one step closer to a world where a billion people are less likely to die from the consequences of chewing, smoking or ingesting tobacco. But successful advocacy to reduce the health impacts of tobacco have not been matched by successes in challenging other impacts from tobacco – including on education, equality, economic growth, and on the environment – all of which can affect a country’s development.

This overview opens the lid on a Pandora’s Box containing the quieter but shockingly widespread impacts of tobacco from an environmental perspective. The tobacco industry damages the environment in ways that go far beyond the effects of the smoke that cigarettes put into the air.

Tobacco growing, the manufacture of tobacco products and their delivery to retailers all have severe environmental consequences, including deforestation, the use of fossil fuels and the dumping or leaking of waste products into the natural environment. From start to finish, the tobacco life cycle is an overwhelmingly polluting and damaging process.

The scale of the environmental damage resulting from tobacco use, as described in this overview, makes clear how much more needs to be done both to monitor and counteract it. It also highlights the need for a collaborative approach to tobacco control. In the past few years, health and finance authorities have come together to use taxation as a highly successful form of tobacco control. Similar efforts could be made by environmental and health authorities, who already collaborate on shared concerns such as air pollution. A united response is a strong response is what Independent Tobacco believes in.

Independent Tobacco aim to be the sustainable benchmark supplier of innovative high quality tobacco products offerings substantial value to both consumers and business partners alike across all of our selling markets.

Our company holds more than 35 years of experience in the tobacco industry from working with multi-national companies and moving on to developing our own brands to serve different consumer tasters around the world.

We believe that quality is the key to a successful business that is why we pay extra attention in meeting industry standards. We choose the best tobaccos in plantations and pick only the suitable leaves for manufacturing that will undergo intricate processes under the discerning supervision of expert cigarette craftsmen.

Our cigarettes are 100% natural tobaccos and do not contain any flavour or taste enhancing chemical additives, artificially expanded or reconstitutes tobacco.

Manufacturing systems and equipment’s that passed world standards, so you can be sure that our products are clean, safe and the best of quality.

Independent tobacco is committed to the highest quality standards at the most competitive price and to this end we only use the best quality raw materials and packaging in a highly sophisticated manufacturing process.

For furthermore information on the product development & quality, please do mail to info@independenttobacco.com

Independent tobacco is committed to the highest quality standards at the most competitive price and to this end we only use the best quality raw materials and packaging in the manufacturing process.

Our brands are produced under the rigorous scrutiny of our production team who ensure that all products are manufactured using state of the art machinery to achieve the same quality as those of multinational manufacturers. From the Americas to Zimbabwe, our tobaccos are selected from the highest grades that are then skilfully blended in European & Southern African facilities.

Once manufactured, we price our brands at the most completive level that offers exceptional value to both our distributors and consumers.

Our Management team consists of former employees of the largest American and British multinational tobacco companies.

These professionals bring years of experience in the development, manufacturing and marketing of some of the world’s most famous cigarette brands.

Their expertise extends across all disciplines from the processing and blending of tobaccos, all stages of the manufacturing process through to the sales, marketing and distribution to market across the globe

Please do mail for further information: info@independenttobacco.com

We are committed to business practices that respect internationally recognized human rights in line with the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. We base our commitment on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. We will talk with and listen to people whose human rights we might affect. We will look closely at our practices, continuously strive to improve them, and operate systems to implement this commitment from supplier to consumer.

From the tobacco leaves in the fields all the way to packs for sale to consumers, we follow extensive regulatory controls, including many that are specific to our business. But central to our business model is respect for principles more fundamental than those in statutes and regulations. We continuously strive to improve our practices with respect for rights holders, the consumers, for our colleagues, workers in for our supply chain, and for the communities where we are present.

Human rights and tobacco control are mutually reinforcing frameworks, supported both by human rights law and by the FCTC – two complementary regimes in international law. Using human rights can be effective not only in defending tobacco control laws, but also in affirmatively advancing tobacco control at the national level. The FCTC shapes the content of the right to health, and health-related rights, such as the right to life and a clean environment, as well as the right to information. Finally, regional and international human rights systems can also provide an avenue for monitoring the implementation of the FCTC. While the FCTC Conference of the Parties develops a mechanism to

Respecting human rights is a critical element of doing business responsibly.