How do I calculate a cigarette factory's carbon footprint per thousand sticks?
Divide factory electricity and boiler fuel by thousands of sticks made. Purchased tobacco, filters, paper and board are Scope 3 and usually larger than the factory. Smoke from the product in use is Scope 3 Category 11 for the maker.
Records
- Electricity for making and packing machines and humidity control.
- Boiler fuel for tobacco conditioning.
- Purchases of leaf, filters, paper and packaging.
Use phase
Combustion of the product by smokers releases CO2 and other gases; report it in Category 11 with the method stated.
What Senseible does here
Senseible reads the plant's electricity bills (CEA grid factor 0.710 kg CO2 per kWh, CO2 Baseline Database version 21.0) and fuel invoices (IPCC 2006 defaults) into a fingerprinted Scope 1 and 2 record, the plant-level input to a per-unit figure. Bought-in materials go to the supplier evidence trail; product reports are self-declared drafts.
Sources: CEA CO2 Baseline Database, GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard
Last reviewed 2026-10-22.