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In fact, engagement with the tobacco industry has never led to less human death.
When we consider that framework, three simple questions, we can see that is reasonable and defensible to take a strong position and exclude investment in the tobacco industry.
In addition to the UN tobacco treaty, there is, in fact, another global treaty that demands that we act on tobacco.
Now, we're talking about tobacco, and I know you're going to jump straight to number three: good health and well-being.
And indeed, ramping up tobacco control regulation is essential if we're going to achieve that goal.
However, look a bit more deeply, and you will find that 13 of the 17 goals cannot be achieved unless there is a major shake-up of the tobacco industry.
At present, we have the entire global health sector doing everything it can to help the tidal wave of patients suffering as a result of tobacco.
We also have governments aligned on tobacco, 180 of them, busily trying to implement the provisions of the UN tobacco treaty.
If the global finance sector continues to lend money to tobacco companies, to invest in tobacco companies, and to strive to profit from tobacco companies, we are working against each other.
Now, if we are going to disrupt what doctors call "the global tobacco epidemic," we need every sector of society to stand side by side and be part of the solution.
Pure financial risks, associated with being invested in the tobacco industry over the long term, and I ask finance leaders to consider them.
The first risk is that fewer and fewer people will smoke, as a result of increasing tobacco regulation.
At present, it's the business model of the tobacco industry that is being challenged.
Currently, the tobacco industry externalizes all of the health costs associated with tobacco.
The tobacco industry externalizes all those costs, with an estimated one trillion US dollars per year.
In 2015, in Quebec province, the courts determined that the tobacco industry was indeed responsible for those health costs, and ordered them to pay 15 billion US dollars.
But it begs the question, why should any of us, in any country, be paying for the costs of the tobacco industry?
It is not well known that the tobacco industry significantly relies on child labor.
The US Department of Labor currently lists 16 countries that use children to produce tobacco leaf.
Finally, there is also reputation risk to consider for individuals and organizations that continue to maintain an affiliation with the tobacco industry.
In countless surveys, the tobacco industry ranks as the world's least reputable industry.
After around 2,000 meetings with finance leaders, primarily in the cafés of Melbourne and Sydney and London and Paris and New York and all across the globe, momentum, moving away from investment in the tobacco industry, is starting to snowball.
Since tobacco-free portfolios began, more than six billion dollars has been redirected away from investment in the tobacco industry.
A physicist cannot tell you, despite the claims of some of them, whether or not tobacco causes cancer.
I mean, look, the markets in marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine are global commodities markets just like the global markets in alcohol, tobacco, coffee, sugar, and so many other things.
From tobacco to lead poisoning to HIV/AIDS, the United States actually has quite a strong track record with addressing public health problems, but replicating those successes with ACEs and toxic stress is going to take determination and commitment, and when I look at what our nation's response has been so far, I wonder, why haven't we taken this more seriously?
For example, they inserted the genes, or instructions, for a cell to create firefly luciferase and luciferin into a tobacco plant.
Once there, the tobacco plant followed the instructions slipped into its DNA and lit up like a Christmas tree.
The crops grown in the new colonies, sugar cane, tobacco, and cotton, were labor intensive, and there were not enough settlers or indentured servants to cultivate all the new land.
A healthy diet, avoiding tobacco use, staying fit, and enjoying plenty of sleep and lots of laughter all go a long way in making sure your body's most important muscle keeps on beating.
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