Tobacco companies are getting away with murder. Nearly 430 000 Americans die each year from smoking related diseases. An estimated 730 000 adolescent smokers will begin each year. (American Lung Association Fact Sheet. Online 1999) That should be an outrage to every American out there. Tobacco laws need to be stricter in this country and advertising of the product should be banned. Two major tobacco companies RJ Reynolds and Philip Morris spend 12 million dollars each day on tobacco advertising. These companies support the popular brands of cigarettes Camel and Marlboro. The two most highly sought after brands by teenage kids today. To say these companies don't have an influence on our adolescents would be absurd. Parents who began smoking 30 years ago on average do not smoke the same brands of cigarettes that kids do today they tend to smoke less advertised brands. In a study done at the Medical College of Georgia in 1998 " showed that as many 6 year old kids could relate The Camel Advertisements to smoking as they could relate Mickey Mouse to Disney". That right there should be enough to concern every parent out there. .
There are a lot of surprising statistics that make the government and the people sue big tobacco advertisers. Like the fact that tobacco is the only legal product that causes death and disability when used as intended. Cigarettes kill more than 400,000 Americans every year, that's more than AIDS, alcohol, car accidents, murders, suicides, drugs and fires combined. Several studies have found nicotine to be addictive in ways similar to those of heroin, cocaine, and alcohol. Smokers have almost twice the risk of having coronary heart disease as nonsmokers. Smokers' risk of getting lung cancer is approximately 14 times than that of nonsmokers. It has taken many years for tobacco products deadly effects to be scientifically documented but now that it has the results are staggering and something must be done to stop it.
I will tell you what some types of tobacco are, why people often use tobacco, some brief history about tobacco, why people use tobacco, why people don't quit, how you can quit if you do smoke and a couple of other things. ... Some people think that tobacco is cool. ... Another way to use tobacco is to chew it. ... These have more tobacco than usual. ... In 1492 tobacco was discovered. ...
Tobacco has been a highly discussed and controversial topic for many years now. ... This is a blatant disregard to our national laws on the approved age for those legally able to buy tobacco and tobacco related products. ... These are definitely not the three adjectives of choice that I would use to describe cigarettes or any other tobacco related product, but this is how the tobacco industry wants people to view their products. ... With the onslaught of tobacco litigation, it seems as though the time has come for the tobacco industry to pay the piper. ... Since it is apparent that the to...
The history of tobacco use stems back to the Americas. ... Reynolds Tobacco Company was founded, producing chewing tobacco. ... Reynolds Tobacco Company was founded, producing chewing tobacco. ... Reynolds Tobacco Company was founded, producing chewing tobacco. ... Tobacco Institute, 10 Jan 1979, p2). ...
die in the United States die from tobacco related diseases. ... Despite all the gain in knowledge that has been made over the last couple of decades about the harmful effects of tobacco, there are still thousands of people who start using tobacco products everyday! Obviously, the most damaging effect of tobacco products is the health risk. ... Instead, they use chewing tobacco. ... Ads for cigarettes and chewing tobacco try to make smoking and chewing glamorous. ...
Tobacco Companies and thier ethics By: The Ethnicity of Tobacco Companies Tobacco Companies actively market a highly addictive and lethal product, and have done so for many years here in the United States and abroad. ... Tobacco companies display a lack of ethical concern in producing, marketing, and selling tobacco products. ... Politicians were rewarded financially by tobacco and stood to lose easy campaign money if they challenged tobacco. Tobacco companies also exerted influence against anti-tobacco politicians by contributing to their competitor's campaigns. ... The tobacco co...
Tobacco causes cancer. ... Tobacco has had a long history in America. ... A monumental win for "Big Tobacco." ... As strange as it may sound, many of America's tobacco farmers would also support the regulation of tobacco. ... Many tobacco companies have begun to purchase more tobacco ...
The tobacco we know Introduction The aim of this report is to catch a grip on why and how tobacco is such a big industry today. ... It has been the preferred "tobacco- since settlers in Jamestown, Virginia, began growing it. ... Already in 1641, the tobacco industry was monopolized. ... Tobacco cultivation utilizes more labor than most other crops. In the foreseeable future, farmers will continue to invest in tobacco production as long as consumer demand for tobacco products, and as long as they can be assured that their crops will sell quickly and profitably. ...
Skoal chewing tobacco say "Always there in a pinch." ... Tobacco companies try to get people started at an early age, it affects more than one person if tobacco smoke is around someone else. ... Eventually tobacco became famous for smoking. ... Just because the tobacco leaf had a lot of value during colonial days doesn't mean we have to stick by tobacco's side right now. ... In small efforts to take tobacco out of the nation's economy, tobacco is taxed, but not made illegal. ...
*The Future Tobacco Industry* Over the years the tobacco industry has been blamed for constant problems in our society. ... Despite all the warnings, society has neglected to acknowledge tobacco as a deadly substance and the tobacco industry doesn't seem to think of tobacco as deadly, they simply see it as a profitable toxicant. ... "Approximately 10% of Canadian tobacco consumer's switch brands every year. ... Tobacco advertising influences people from all ages and ethic groups. ... For example, several companies use slogans such as "smoking is the way to be independent, smoki...
Beating Big Tobacco As part of the 1998 multi-state tobacco settlement, the nations largest cigarette companies promised not to "take any action directly or indirectly to target youth in advertising, promotion, or marketing of tobacco products." ... Tobacco is no longer advertised on television or billboards. ... We need to step up the program and put it on a level with that of the tobacco companies. ... It is proven that the key to tobacco's success has been through marketing. The same thing that put big tobacco on top can bring them down. ...
