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Sonja von Eichborn
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Director @unfairtobacco.bsky.social, committed to a tobacco-free world, human rights, democracy, environment
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#bluelz
February 13, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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#KinderOhneAlkoholUndNikotin

#Werbeverbot für Alkohol = eine der Maßnahmen, die als #BestBuys gelten, also besonders kostengünstig und effektiv ...
#CDoH
alkoholpolitik.bsky.social Alkoholpolitik @alkoholpolitik.bsky.social · 1d
3/4 Werbung hat einen messbaren Einfluss auf Kinder und Jugendliche. Ein Werbeverbot wäre wirksam und kosteneffizient. Viele Expert*innen empfehlen es.
February 12, 2026 at 6:47 AM
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Watch a teenager from Indonesia telling his story into smoking: www.youtube.com/watch?v=may7...
Youth Smoking and the Right to Health in Indonesia
YouTube video by Unfairtobacco
www.youtube.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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Wonder how tobacco harms the environment and the climate? Check it out here on the @unfairtobacco.bsky.social website: unfairtobacco.org/en/tobacco-h...
Tobacco harms the environment and the climate
Read here how tobacco destroys the environment and the climate. That's what's in a cigarette: chemicals, deforestation and toxic waste.
unfairtobacco.org
February 11, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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#Kinderrechte #KinderOhneAlkoholUndNikotin #Tabakkontrolle
unfairtobacco.bsky.social Unfairtobacco @unfairtobacco.bsky.social · 2d
Der Kinderrechte-Ausschuss der UN überprüft zur Zeit, wie Spanien die #Kinderrechte schützt.

Die #Tabakindustrie richtet sich in Spanien unerbittlich an Kinder durch Werbung, Verkaufsförderung und Sponsoring.

Spanien muss seine Maßnahmen zur #Tabakkontrolle verstärken um Kinder zu schützen! 🔽
ash.org Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) @ash.org · 2d
#CRC100 is reviewing how #Spain protects #childrensrights.

It's essential for Spain to strengthen their tobacco control policies to protect children from the aggressive and deadly tobacco industry.

Learn more: ash.org/crc100-spain
#TobaccoViolation
February 11, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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Watch this documentary by @tcrgbath.bsky.social to get a sense of tobacco farmers' plight
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Tobacco Slave - STOP
This film shines a light on the plight of tobacco farmers in Malawi as they describe, in their own words, what growing tobacco is really like.
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February 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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unfairtobacco.bsky.social Unfairtobacco @unfairtobacco.bsky.social · 22d
There are plenty of alternatives to tobacco cultivation.
And tobacco is economically not the better option.

This farmer in Malawi successfully quit tobacco cultivation.
More examples like this?
▶️ Take a look at the fact sheet: unfairtobacco.org/wp-content/u...

#FoodNotTobacco #tobaccontrol
February 6, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Reposted by Sonja von Eichborn
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#Tabaklobby
#TobaccoIndustryInterference

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@lobbycontrol.bsky.social
politico.eu POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 16d
The European Commission suspects that a massive tranche of pro-industry comments on the EU's proposed tobacco tax hike was “probably” a coordinated attempt to distort public feedback.
EU Commission suspects ‘coordinated’ interference in tobacco tax feedback
The proposal was swamped with thousands of anonymous pro-industry submissions within minutes.
www.politico.eu
January 28, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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Thanks for this valuable research, written by @tcrgbath.bsky.social experts.

How farmers in Zimbabwe could successfully escape the tobacco trap, you can find out here: unfairtobacco.org/en/alternati...

#FoodNotTobacco
Mushrooms from the tobacco barn - unfairtobacco
In Zimbabwe, the Utariri Programme supports farmers to venture into climate friendly alternatives with short cultivation periods and low socio-ecological footprints: oyster mushrooms, small grains, ap...
unfairtobacco.org
January 23, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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... Tabak kann man nicht essen ...
unfairtobacco.bsky.social Unfairtobacco @unfairtobacco.bsky.social · 23d
Es gibt vielfältige Alternativen zum Tabakanbau.
Gesundheitlich betrachtet ist Tabakanbau immer die schlechtere Option.

Diese brasilianische Farmerin erfuhr auf ihrem Weg der #Umstellung zu ökolog. Landbau (Gemüse) vielfach Unterstützung:

👉 unfairtobacco.org/wp-content/u...

#NahrungStattTabak
Farmerin in Brasilien sitzt neben ihrem Salatbeet und sagt (in Sprechblase): "Das Gefühl nicht mehr mit Pestiziden arbeiten zu müssen, oh mein Gott, das ist so unbezahlbar."
January 21, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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#FoodNotTobacco = #TobaccoControl
find examples of farmers who #quitTobacco with success
unfairtobacco.bsky.social Unfairtobacco @unfairtobacco.bsky.social · 23d
New fact sheet available!
Supporting alternative livelihoods for farmers in the Global South should also be a part of #Tobaccocontrol.
Our new fact sheet provides a brief overview & is a good way to bring this topic to students:
👉 unfairtobacco.org/en/material/...

#FoodNotTobacco
January 21, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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#KinderOhneAlkoholUndNikotin
tcrgbath.bsky.social Tobacco Control Research Group @tcrgbath.bsky.social · 24d
Tobacco companies claim that they are responsible actors, but evidence shows that they continue to resist regulation that could threaten their profits.

Find out more in our recent analysis of the #tobaccoindustry response to the UK’s ‘disposable’ #ecigarette ban.

👉 doi.org/10.1093/heap...
“[Transnational tobacco companies] used familiar framing strategies to oppose the UK’s single-use e-cigarette ban, despite claimed alignment with public health and environmental goals.”
January 20, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Reposted by Sonja von Eichborn
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Review of our Unfairtobacco work in 2025, a year packed with activities.
🗣️ We met a huge number of people and young people with whom we shared our knowledge and discussed sustainable solutions & transformation.
👉 Read more here: unfairtobacco.org/en/year-in-r...
#Unfairtobacco #GlobalLearning
January 15, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Reposted by Sonja von Eichborn
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Unser Rückblick auf die #Unfairtobacco Arbeit 2025, einem mit Aktivitäten vollgepackten Jahr.
🗣️ Wir haben enorm viele Menschen & Jugendliche getroffen, mit denen wir unser Wissen geteilt und über nachhaltige Lösungsansätze diskutiert haben.
👉 Hier reinlesen: unfairtobacco.org/jahresrueckb...
January 14, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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#KinderOhneAlkoholUndNikotin
jetzt auch noch Zahnstocher ...
unfairtobacco.bsky.social Unfairtobacco @unfairtobacco.bsky.social · 29d
Sind in verschiedenen Geschmacksrichtungen erhältlich und liefern eine ähnliche Menge Nikotin wie schwächere Nikotinpouches (2-3 mg/Stück)
Und haben das "Potenzial, auch bisherige Nichtkonsumierende in den Nikotinkonsum hineinzuziehen."
#tabakkontrolle #nikotinprodukte #KinderOhneAlkoholUndNikotin
January 15, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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#KinderOhneAlkoholUndNikotin
Höhere Preise schützen Kinder und Jugendliche vor dem Einstieg in eine #Sucht, die hierzulande noch immer verharmlost wird.
#Kinderrechte #UNKRK
January 12, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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#KinderOhneAlkoholUndNikotin
January 12, 2026 at 4:28 PM
seichborn.bsky.social
wer lieber einen Newsletter liest, kann sich hier eintragen
unfairtobacco.org/newsletter/

#Tabakkontrolle #Menschenrechte #Umwelt
December 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Reposted by Sonja von Eichborn
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The fight for #humanrights and a tobacco-free world requires persistence. 🌬️
We depend on your support to achieve this! 🫲
You can contribute by donating to Unfairtobacco. 🫶

🎄Tip: On Advent Sundays, betterplace adds an extra 25%.
📍 www.betterplace.org/en/projects/...
December 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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So sad that #Malawi is still depending so much on #tobacco exports to earn forex for debts.
#DebtRelief & #ExitTobacco
growing #FoodNotTobacco should be part of the solution, supporting smallholder farmers on household level
map showing main tobacco growing countries in Africa and Asia, their area under tobacco cultivation, the proportion of population under risk of food insecurity, and number of people who could be fed if food was grown instead of tobacco. Text under map: Tobacco Growing or Food More than 17 million people around the world work in tobacco farming, primarily in low- and middle-income countries such as Brazil, Indonesia or Zimbabwe. Farmers in these countries struggle to make a living from tobacco growing. Their income is often so low that there is no money left to pay any workers and child labour is widespread. In some countries, tobacco growing contributes to food insecurity. When fields are planted with tobacco, they can no longer be used to grow food. In tobacco growing countries such as Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania, significant proportions of the population are at risk of food insecurity. Seven of the ten countries with the largest area under cultivation are in Asia and Africa. If food was grown in these countries instead of tobacco, more than 11 million people could be fed. map and text from Unfairtobacco
December 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Reposted by Sonja von Eichborn
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Members of our #TobaccoTactics team have co-authored a new editorial in @bmjtobacco-control.bsky.social on the progress made on key agenda points at the recent Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control #FCTCCOP11.

👉 Read the editorial: doi.org/10.1136/tc-2...
“COP11 … marked a decisive moment in the FCTC’s evolution, reaffirmed its continued relevance and demonstrated Parties’ increasing willingness to adopt measures that address the structures that support the tobacco industry and sustain the epidemic.”
December 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Rückblick auf die #WHOFCTC COP11 🔍
Genf, 17.-22. Nov. 2025

Abschließende Sitzung: Jugend-Delegation 🔽
📣"Youth are experts, advocates and innovators driving tobacco control!"

#Partizipation #WHOCOP11 #Tabakkontrolle

Nachzuhören hier: player.4am.ch/who/20251117...
December 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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corporateeurope.org Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · Dec 10
EU Commission needs to focus on the real crises facing our communities, not the lobby demands of big business falsely complaining about over-regulation.

Take action today to defend pesticide regulations!

corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/t...
December 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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seichborn.bsky.social Sonja von Eichborn @seichborn.bsky.social · Nov 26
#KinderOhneAlkoholundNikotin
👉Deutsche Tabakfirmen geben jährlich mehr als 6,5 Millionen Euro für Lobbying aus (Auswertung des Lobbyregisters)
👉Kontakte der Tabakindustrie bis in höchste politische Ebene
👉viele Treffen u. Absprachen nicht öffentlich dokumentiert
Das widerspricht #WHOFCTC Art. 5.3!
unfairtobacco.bsky.social Unfairtobacco @unfairtobacco.bsky.social · Nov 26
Der neue Tabaklobby-Index für Deutschland ist veröffentlicht!

Deutschland unterbindet den Einfluss der Tabakindustrie weiterhin nur wenig und rangiert im internationalen Ranking mit Platz 68 von 100 untersuchten Staaten im unteren Drittel. 🤔

🔽
#Tabaklobby #Einflussnahme #TabaklobbyIndex
December 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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🔎 politischer Wille 🔎
#KinderOhneAlkoholUndNikotin
December 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM