Do the Tobacco Companies Care about You Part 2

Destroy the glamour images that the tobacco companies feed you and start asking some tough questions.

Here are THREE sample questions that will help you look MORE closely at all tobacco and cigarette advertisements:

-    Why is that?
-    Oh, really?
-    According to whom?

Understand the core and intent of the ad and what is behind the message(s). Then make your decisions.

There is no claim made that the product is actually good or beneficial to you. Try to find some references that show that. Examples of how it benefits your health, body, etc.

Identify cigarettes as the source of all that is good, not evil. Choosing athletes and models to tote the product will not help if you are realistic.

Swimming is good for you, smoking is not, so a scene of a young athlete swimming and then lighting up will not convince you. You know better!

It is all about branding and who gets to access, use and choose it! What about competitors ask them? Unarm the powerful images. Ask why they do not cough when they smoke. Why do their eyes do not water?

The people in the ads smile all the time as if in pure bliss (and your experience is so much different as you puff, and fill your lungs with harmful chemicals).

Very soon those appealing advertisements are no longer so convincing as you see right through their misleading nature and true intent.

Test their claims and try what they suggest. Share and write down your experiences as you do what the advertisements suggests.
You will soon cut right through the lies, suggestive imagery etc. and get to the truth which will shock you – none of the advertisements actually tell the truth!

Cigarette advertising is under the microscope and scrutiny of governments. Lots of law suits have been won and settled in courts, and cigarette taxes are more wisely spent.

Smoking is being toted more and more for the hazardous substance it really is and more honest campaigns will put people off the habit for good!

Farmers in some areas are switching from growing tobacco to growing other products, such as corn. Apparently the market for tobacco is shrinking. Join the others who have quit smoking before it is too late.

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