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    Santa Fe-based Company for Deceptive Marketing Is there such thing as a safe cigarette? Research covering many studies and many decades have confirmed that even a little smoking can be dangerous. E-smoking is dangerous and even being exposed to second hand smoke from cigarettes is very dangerous. However, a particular brand of cigarettes markets itself as an all-natural cigarette without additives and it is now being sued for deceptive marketing. Details of the Law Suit The company being sued is…

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    was quite uncommon for Americans to not smoke cigarettes. In fact, it was considered fashionable and done everywhere, with no restrictions. People were not concerned or necessarily aware of the health risks. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that about sixty-six percent of Americans over the age of eighteen smoked cigarettes regularly, this did not include the large amount of teenagers under eighteen who also commonly smoked cigarettes. The tobacco industry was far…

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    The end of World War II brought rise to the tobacco industry and essentially introduced Americans to tobacco use. More predominately, Americans’ cigarette consumption was on a rapid incline. A significant amount of Americans were smoking, yet only about 40% knew the health risks of smoking cigarettes (Graham, 2012). Americans remained ill-informed until the 1960’s when healthcare professionals began shining a negative light on the health consequences of smoking. On January 11, 1964, the Surgeon…

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    that smoking advertisements are an often-debated topic that often divides opinion. These advertisements are used as a sort of propaganda for the tobacco industry. Marriam-Webster defines propaganda as the spreading of ideas, information, or rumors for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person. For centuries tobacco companies have been using ads with tricky tactics to enhance a teenager’s interest in smoking. When it comes to the Federal Trade Commission, they…

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    During the golden age of the cigarette in the 40 's and 50 's, tobacco companies turn the television advertising as their main source of sales. Companies such as Camel, Lucky Strike, Phillip Morris, Newport, among others were promoted by a corruptive group of advertisers who controlled the networks, strategically placing their ads at any time of the day on television shows, creating a publicity blitz of pro-tobacco consumption exposed to the general public, regardless of age or social status. Is…

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    The Tobacco Conspiracy is a documentary which was released in 2005 by film maker Nadia Collot. Collot is on a research pursuit to discover the reason in which people smoke. Thus, this insightful documentary focuses on summarizing the tobacco industries history as well as the corruption and deceitful tactics tobacco corporations use to engage their consumers. This is an educational documentary which has a wide target as it can be used as an educational tool to deter those who do not smoke and an…

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    11 Quit Smoking Giving up smoking is easy. I’ve done it hundreds of times. – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910), the American humorist author, portrays how hard ‘quit smoking’ is. Tobacco kills prematurely half of its users. For any age group, smokers are likely to die twice the rate as to people who never smoked. You burn alive with your own fire. Researchers – studying over 220,000 adult Americans – found that cigarettes took an average of 10 years off the lives of smokers who never quit. Smoking is…

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    Introduction: Tobacco Companies cost the United States large amount of money each single year; they use to cost more than $289 billion yearly including as a minimum $133 billion in direct medical care of adults that refer to a clear negative point for Tobacco use. The first people who used Tobacco are the pre-Columbian Americas. It was used in the past by the Native Americans for ceremonial and medicinal purposes, it seems that they smoked it within pipes after cultivated the plant. However,…

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    Cigarettes: A Deadly American Tradition Smoking cigarettes is one of the most addicting and deadly habits in modern America. Cigarettes can cause permanent health problems to you and and others around you. The sad thing is unlike some serious illnesses, smoking cigarettes is highly preventable. In one article James S. Zoller writes, “The Surgeon General has reported that ‘smoking is the single most preventable cause of premature death in the United States’” (Zoller, 2). If this is the case,…

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    Camel No. 9 Advertising

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    The use of tobacco products among underage kids has always been a massive issue within the United States, since it is illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone under the age of eighteen. Even to this day it remains an ongoing problem because many of these teenagers use tobacco products to make them seem like they are older and more mature. The R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, which produces the cigarette brand Camel, has produced several campaigns that have caused major uproar among many health…

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