Cigarette Industry In The 20th Century

Within the United States, according to CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the use of tobacco is one of the leading causes of disease, disability and death. For every several decades, the tobacco industry has tried to influence millions of people that smoking is casual, stimulating and completely harmless. Throughout history, the tobacco industry has created one of the most successful ads. According to Yanping Cui, Mao Ying and Hongqi Fan, writers of the Cigarette smoking practice and attitudes, and proposed effective smoking cessation measres among college students in China, state over the first half of the 20th century that cigarettes were at a steep increase. It wasn’t until 1964 when cigarettes reached their peak. Around this era, the cigarette industry began to see a shift of change within their system. Many driving forces began to project the truth about the harmful effects that smoking tobacco can cause. It was these leading factors such as … that caused cigarettes to have a …show more content…
The commercial Cigarettes, made the product seem glamorous by showcasing a beautiful young Hollywood woman holding the product in her hands and having a puff. This commercial and many other advertisements gave the substance an image of relaxation and enjoyment but only for a few exclusive groups. Within the 20th century, mass production and modern marketing made cigarettes available to the general public. Around the 1960s, a public discourse around cigarettes began to emerge through advertising causing institutional discourses such as social, medical and health discourse. Over the past decades, the race of discourse of cigarette smoking was slow but was gaining dominance that smoking is considered to be an, ‘unhealthy act’. As the rise of a negative image of cigarettes began to emerge so did medical help such as doctors prescribing patients for medicine to help them quit