# How do I calculate a cigarette factory's carbon footprint per thousand sticks?

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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.

- [Tobacco barn fuel](https://senseible.earth/answers/flue-cured-tobacco-barn-fuel-emissions)
- [Bidi making footprint](https://senseible.earth/answers/bidi-making-carbon-footprint-per-thousand)

Sources: [CEA CO2 Baseline Database](https://cea.nic.in/cdm-co2-baseline-database/?lang=en), [GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard](https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-value-chain-scope-3-standard)

Last reviewed 2026-10-22.