Tobacco-growing is often portrayed as one of the major causes, if not the main one, of deforestation in the world, especially due to deforestation for crop expansion and for use of wood to cure tobacco. The tobacco cultivated surface has decreased by 14% in the last 20 years, showing increase only in a very small number of countries. More than half of the tobacco grown world-wide does not make use of wood for curing, and in the cases where it does, there is also evidence of woodlot planting and responsible behaviour of the tobacco growers and the tobacco industry. This document assesses the situation providing information from independent reliable
sources.

Tobacco, Impact, Forest