Spotlight Series: The Environmental Focus of Tobacco Control
Description
The lifecycle of tobacco products has a strong impact on the environment. Pesticides are used when growing tobacco, chemicals and plastics are used when tobacco products are manufactured, distribution throughout the global market requires fossil fuels, and once products are used, microplastics, chemicals, and e-cigarette batteries make their way to open water and land, polluting waterways, local environments, and animal habitats.
Join Thomas Novotny (MPH '92), professor emeritus of epidemiology and biostatistics at the San Diego State University School of Public Health, and Ryan Kennedy, associate professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, for a facilitated discussion around the history of tobacco control, where we are now, and where Novotny and Kennedy want to see the field move in the future.
Who can attend?
- General public
- Faculty
- Staff
- Students
