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Corporate Social Responsibility and Big Tobacco: Hope or Hype? [11/29-1]

Excerpts from: Corporate social responsibility and the tobacco industry: hope or hype?

By N Hirschhorn Tobacco Control Online [11/28/04]

ABSTRACT
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) emerged from a realisation among transnational corporations of the need to account for and redress their adverse impact on society: specifically, on human rights, labour practices, and the environment. Two transnational tobacco companies have recently adopted CSR: Philip Morris, and British American Tobacco. This report explains the origins and theory behind CSR; examines internal company documents from Philip Morris showing the company’s deliberations on the matter, and the company’s perspective on its own behaviour; and reflects on whether marketing tobacco is antithetical to social responsibility.

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